I think this is a huge struggle for everyone these days. And I think it just made worse in the pandemic. People got drawn into it and it's all negative, somehow we're all yelling at each other. The way the implicit distributed curation works, especially on a platform like Twitter where it's really cybernetics,. It's driven by hundreds of thousands of individual retweet decisions that are good at amplifying through the power law topology.
Cal Newport is one of the world's leading thinkers on how technology affects the way we live, work and think.
Cal is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. He is also New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including his three latest: A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. Cal is also a contributing writer for the New Yorker and the host of the popular Deep Questions podcast.
Cal joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to talk about how we can improve our workstyles, slow productivity, Elon Musk's recent purchase of Twitter, and the future of social media.
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