Digital Minimalism: A Holiday Disconnect
Digital Minimalism: A Holiday Disconnect
It is Christmas Day.
Today, the servers run themselves. The automated tests are the only things working.
In a hyper-connected world, the most radical thing you can do is disconnect. For the next 24 hours, I am practicing Digital Minimalism. This means no metrics checking, no email triage, and no roadmap planning.
If your architecture is robust, it won't break just because you ate dinner with your family. If your business collapses because you didn't answer an email on December 25th, you don't have a business—you have a crisis.
Enjoy the silence. Enjoy the people around you.
See you in the logs tomorrow.
Best,
Gerasimos Makris Founder of g-makris.com AI Web Developer | Double Master's in MBA & FinTech and Blockchain
Tech Glossary & Concepts
- Digital Minimalism: A philosophy of technology use where you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected activities that strongly support your things you value, and happily miss out on everything else.
- Automated Tests: Scripts that run automatically to check if the software is working correctly, without human intervention.
- Triage: The process of determining the priority of patients (or in this case, emails and bugs) based on the severity of their condition.
Gerasimos Makris is an AI Web Developer with a background in FinTech operations. He specializes in building secure, scalable web applications that solve real-world financial problems. When he's not coding, he enjoys exploring the intersection of technology, finance, and business strategy.