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The Hidden Dangers of Confusing Attention With Accomplishment
Sally Kohn: Social media does make it easy for people to spread the word about things, but that has very little to do with you spreading the word about yourself. She says we overestimate the importance of us talking about our work on our channels and get the huge blow up from social media. Kohn: A novelist who quit Twitter said his terminology was that each tweet was like a steam whistle? You're trying to catch attention by bleeding out all this steam so no longer have enough left to produce something worthwhile.
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