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. We should be pretty severe about it. If you're using social media for your business, just use it for your business. It should be boring. The way the implicit distributed curation works, especially on a platform like Twitter where it's really cybernetics.
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.
In his second appearance on the show, 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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