Entrepreneur and investor James Altucher has written an interesting essay about minimalism and what it means to him and not.

"Do you have to get off the internet to be a minimalist?"

Sometimes. For four million years we were "disconnected." For 20 years we have been "connected."

I have 238,795 unread emails in my inbox. Emails are a suggestion but not an obligation.

Love and spirituality and gratitude are found in personal connection. Not in an email response.

Sometimes I might return an email ten years later. Those are fun. I pretend like I just got the email a second ago and I return it, "Sure I'll meet you for coffee tomorrow!" I get fun responses.