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Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by apancik »

afarrell wrote: post #77
Veen wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I've recently been finding it really hard to concentrate on my work I've overcome my Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter problems, but I can't seem to shake Hacker News.

I use https://freedom.to/ to block HN on my phone and laptop when I need to.

What I found is that blocking completely works less than just delaying the page for a bit with something like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/waitblock/kcnjfepp...

That way I have enough time to think and question whether I really want to open the page I was about to open, and I don't disable the whole thing if I actually need to visit it.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by Noseshine »

forgetsusername wrote: post #106
cuantos wrote: post #86

More importantly social media is bad for your mental health. It hits the brain in many of the same ways as the 'news' and those intentionally boring phone games. It causes dopamine dysregulation which leads to a dependency. Consider the anxiety you feel if you need to go to the bathroom and cannot find your phone. This dopamine dysregulation destroys your mood and motivation. Being social is a good thing. However com…

> Consider the anxiety you feel if you need to go to the bathroom and cannot find your phone. Is this a real thing?

A thread on reddit about just that very topic gained front-page visibility and a lot of "I'm actually doing this right now" comments.

EDIT - I actually found it, "Reddit is probably the world's largest group of people that communicate while shitting.": https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/5dqufr/redd...

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by Bahamut »

I recommend a different approach - if one feels bound to go on social media often, take a couple of month hiatus from it. The main important thing is to be able to break the power of addiction, since it is what causes the distractions in the first place. It is not really a problem unique to social media.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by [deleted] »

untilHellbanned wrote: post #109
anondon wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Consider reading the HN guidelines, unless you are actively trying to get hell banned. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please explain what guideline this comment violates. I was serious. Quitting the NY Times is the only way they will realize that they made some huge mistakes in the elections coverage. NY Times was made to look like a fool by this election. Their arrogance will be their downfall. And keep in mind I'm a hardcore liberal, and always valued sources like NY Times. Now I think they are a joke with how they didn't take Tru…

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Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by eternalban »

ethanbond wrote: post #79
TheGirondin wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- GrubHub CEO saying that anyone who voted for Trump is not welcome.

That's not really what he said. He said that a Trump victory makes some people fearful, and he wants a workplace that fosters the opposite of that, and that if you cannot foster an inclusive and diverse workplace that you are not welcome. I don't think what he did say was quite eloquent and it was clearly emotionally heated, but it didn't imply nor state that Trump voters are unwelcome.

What he said: http://media.grubhub.com/media/press-releases/press-release-...

He very explicitly says that any employee that disagrees with his statement should resign and the "statement" included his political views.

Will wearing a t-shirt with "I heart America" get you fired at GrubHub? It's on Matt's list of no-nos: nationalist.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by dorfsmay »

jamroom wrote: post #18
thro32 wrote: post #4

There is also another aspect. In theory your personal life and work are separated. Your religion or political opinions should not matter at work. But many people (sadly even on HN) think it is ok to fire people, based on their opinions.

I'm going to guess that a lot of HN does NOT think it is OK to fire people for their opinions - however if your core beliefs are out of line with a companies beliefs then it just might make you a bad FIT for the company. Not about your opinion, but about you fit with a group of people who's opinion and beliefs are opposite.

But then people extend the "core beliefs" of the company to whatever they want even if it has nothing to do with what the company does.

As much as I disagreed with Brebdan Eich's political positions, I thought it was wrong that he was pushed out of Mozilla because of them. HN is not a single voice but my reading of it at the time was that, contrary to my position, most people thought it was the right thing to do.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by throwaway-hn123 »

cousin_it wrote: post #88
throwaway-hn123 wrote: post #38

So if your co-worker believes that, for example, black people and gays are subhuman and expresses that view you think that's ok and we should all just put up with it?

If you want to endorse firing people for their online views, next time don't use a throwaway.

I'll do what I want, thanks. I'll also bear the consequences and not whine like a baby.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by FreezerburnV »

ethanbond wrote: post #102
FreezerburnV wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"... and these views, have no place at Grubhub. ... If you do not agree with this statement then please reply to this email with your resignation because you have no place here." Obviously only excerpts from the full email[0], but seems to contradict what you just said pretty heavily. If I was someone who voted for Trump that worked at Grubhub, I know that I would have been afraid for my job after that email. Possibl…

Again, nothing in here is referring to a Trump vote or people who voted for Trump. It's referring to things like ridiculing or mocking minorities, immigrants, and disabled people. Which I think we can all agree are things that Trump did and have no place in a workplace like Grubhub, no?

People should not be mocked, agreed.

But I think things get more complicated in the current environment where people who have voted for Trump have basically been labeled the same as him. It's apparently possible to have a "hateful attitude", or be racist, or whatever else, which can get you fired at GrubHub, by having voted for Trump.

But honestly, regardless of arguing intent or whatever, I think the crux of the argument boils down to this: If you had voted for Trump and worked at GrubHub, would you be comfortable going to the CEO and saying "I voted for Trump" without fearing for your job, after that email? I would imagine the number of people at the company who don't/didn't feel that is non-zero (purely based on a vote, not based on if anyone there is actually racist), and I view that as completely inappropriate.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It

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Post by ohbleek »

Klathmon wrote: post #94
hashtagMERKY wrote: post #31

This part really resonated with me: > Consider that the ability to concentrate without distraction on hard tasks is becoming increasingly valuable in an increasingly complicated economy. Social media weakens this skill because it’s engineered to be addictive. The more you use social media in the way it’s designed to be used — persistently throughout your waking hours — the more your brain learns to crave a quick hit…

Actually I've found that by setting up a blocker on my devices that I can toggle on and off at will is enough. When I start the workday, I toggle it on, and every time I try to load my social stuff (HN included) it puts up a big red warning. I found that the majority of my wasted time was because I impulsively opened a tab to somewhere during like 10 seconds of downtime while waiting for something. And having this li…

Will you share what you're using as a blocker and on which device?
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