Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
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Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
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Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#2Social Media is so obviously bad for you/society and good only for platform owners and advertisers. Most obvious thing in the world. To me, it's not at all obvious that crack addiction is, socially, any different.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#3Is HN "social media"?
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#4Is HN "social media"?
Definitely isn't what I'd call deep work...
Kidding aside, if you use HN to simply read things to learn from instead of... commenting on and reading articles like this... then you may still get a net benefit. I guess part of his point is how can you really expect yourself to be so disciplined?
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#5Is HN "social media"?
No. I think it's better than that. Social media is an MMO. HM is Multiplayer.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#6Is HN "social media"?
HN is to facebook as recovered meat is to asbestos.
Not good for you, but if you want a hotdog once in a while you're not going to die from it.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#7Is HN "social media"?
It's a link aggregator and a webforum. As far as I'm aware, you don't friend people or submit original content, or follow that of others. I would not consider it social media.
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#8It feels like only months (OK, it's been a few years) since we were being told that not having a social media presence may be considered suspicious.
http://business.time.com/2012/08/08/does-not-having-a-facebo...
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#9This is self-promotional, but also highly relevant!
A few moths ago after reading Cal Newport's book "Deep Work", I decided to try to improve my social media usage by writing an app that could block HN/Twitter/Google News (the big 3 digital distractions for me) by default, and force me to go to an extra step to temporarily unblock them when I wanted to use them. It seems like a small thing, but that extra friction of having to open my app, unblock, and then go on to the service in question has really cut down my casual browsing. I feel much more productive and just... at peace with my internet usage since I've adopted this pattern.
If you have iOS and would like to give the app a try, I'd appreciate it! It's totally free for now. https://timeguard.io
Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)
#10It feels like only months (OK, it's been a few years) since we were being told that not having a social media presence may be considered suspicious. http://business.time.com/2012/08/08/does-not-having-a-facebo...
Cal Newport is the author of Deep Work. So at least what he is saying is consistent.