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Ep. 207: A Digital Minimalism Intervention (w/ JAMIE KILSTEIN)

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Social Media

i thought that the hardest part would be staying off it. And even when i did go back to check it sometimes. Social media has a laughably low booksale conversion rate. Our social medi follower numbers, and say, what % of them are going to buy a book when i think i'm going to slam em with post about the book or whatever? It's really small. Yemail newsleters do better, for sure. Emen duslar do much better but that could only do so much. Like even the very biggest writers, what they get out of their personal appeals, the by is on e the order of thousands. All comes down to, you did something awesome

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