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Cal Newport: Using Technology with Intention

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How to Use Social Media Professionally

People often greatly exaggerate the degree to which social media is necessary in their professional life. For those people who do have to use social media professionally as part of their job description, I usually advise you use it like a professional. There's no use case for social media that requires you to need to look at it while you're bored waiting in line at Chipotle. So don't allow a required professional use of social media be the excuse you use to have this thing just be a mobile drag on your attention at all times.

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