Digital Minimalism for Techies

The average tech worker spends $400/month on SaaS—cloud storage, password managers, productivity suites, VPNs, music, and video—each charge small enough to ignore until the annual total hits $4,800.

Digital Minimalism for Techies is the audit-and-replace playbook: find the leak, pick the right hardware, deploy a starter stack tonight, and maintain a minimalist setup that survives real life—not just a weekend homelab demo.

Pair with Self-Hosting Blueprint for full service deployment patterns and Security Stack for Engineers when you wire monitoring and access control into the same network.

What you'll learn

• Audit $400+/month in SaaS subscriptions and find what to cut first
• Choose homelab hardware and OS without overspending on specs
• Deploy Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, and core services in one evening
• Engineer privacy controls across DNS, TLS, and access policies
• Add advanced self-hosted services without rebuilding your stack
• Break notification addiction with intentional digital boundaries
• Follow the 90-day digital minimalism roadmap in the appendix

Who this is for

• Developers tired of paying for Google Workspace, Dropbox, and password managers
• Privacy-conscious engineers who want data sovereignty on hardware they control
• Readers of Self-Hosting Blueprint who need the subscription-audit and declutter playbook

What's inside

1. Chapter 1: The $4,800 Leak — Auditing Your Digital Spending
2. Chapter 2: The Hardware Decision — What to Buy and What to Skip
3. Chapter 3: The Starter Stack — Services You Can Deploy Tonight
4. Chapter 4: Privacy Engineering — Locking Down Your Stack
5. Chapter 5: Beyond the Basics — Advanced Services for the Minimalist
6. Chapter 6: Breaking the Notification Addiction
7. Chapter 7: The Sustainable Practice — Maintaining Your Minimalist Stack
8. Chapter 8: Email, Communication & Productivity Minimalism
9. Chapter 9: Automated Home & Life Management
10. Chapter 10: The 90-Day Digital Minimalism Roadmap

Before you buy

• Review the table of contents above to confirm this book matches your stack and experience level.
• All sales are final once the download link is delivered.
• Questions? Email [email protected].

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