"My mind is my meal ticket. I don't want those things anywhere near me because I know they're engineered to be addictive," he says of social media. "I'm not the smisest of a social media because I think I'm better than it." He doesn't use web serve and purposefully does not have a litany of websites that click through when he's bored. 'That's purposefully because I worry about if I have it, I'm going to go to it'
Cal Newport is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and the author most recently of Deep Work, a book which argues that focus is the new I.Q. in the modern workplace, and So Good They Can’t Ignore You, a book which debunks the long-held belief that “follow your passion” is good advice.
In addition to studying the theoretical foundations of our digital age as a professor, Newport also writes about the impact of these technologies on the world of work.
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