What I learned from quitting social media: Nobody noticed. The world kept spinning. Opportunities kept coming. Life kept happening. But my anxiety dropped. My focus returned. My productivity doubled. We think we need to be everywhere. We don't. You're trading your attention for other people's highlight reels. It's a bad trade. Log off. Live more.
Scott D. Clarysubstack.comScott D. Clary (@scottdclary)
The messaging about social media is so confusing. On one hand, it’s the domain of the embarrassingly anti-intellectual, attention-hungry, vain, stupid, trollish... Yet on the other hand, social media can also supposedly propel people to the presidency and shape an entire generation’s opinion on geopolitical issues. So what does it mean to advocate... See more
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Rule #3 Quit Social Media
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
I realized that the times in my own life when I’ve been most successful on Twitter—in terms of followers and retweets—are the times when I have been least useful as a human being: when I’ve been attention-deprived, simplistic, vituperative. Of course there are occasional nuggets of insight on the site—but if this becomes your dominant mode of
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