If you haven’t heard of him, I’d recommend checking out Cal Newport’s writing, particularly Deep Work and Digital Minimalism.
This post seems like a good illustration of the value of Trying Things, particularly when the upside is high and the risk is low. It may seem obvious, but I know that I personally have a lot of low hanging fruit in this area that I haven’t acted on for whatever reason.
Cal Newport was specifically who I was thinking of when I said “people who don’t understand how useful social media is to me.” And I still think he doesn’t, I’m just now more aware of the cost as well.
I agree that he is very suspicious of the value of social media. But much of Digital Minimalism is written acknowledging that people do extract value from digital interactions (among them social media). It’s simply an approach to extract as much as the benefits as possible while minimizing the costs, which seem like what you want.
Good for you!
If you haven’t heard of him, I’d recommend checking out Cal Newport’s writing, particularly Deep Work and Digital Minimalism.
This post seems like a good illustration of the value of Trying Things, particularly when the upside is high and the risk is low. It may seem obvious, but I know that I personally have a lot of low hanging fruit in this area that I haven’t acted on for whatever reason.
Cal Newport was specifically who I was thinking of when I said “people who don’t understand how useful social media is to me.” And I still think he doesn’t, I’m just now more aware of the cost as well.
I agree that he is very suspicious of the value of social media. But much of Digital Minimalism is written acknowledging that people do extract value from digital interactions (among them social media). It’s simply an approach to extract as much as the benefits as possible while minimizing the costs, which seem like what you want.
So I would still recommend that you check it out.
Ah, I have only read Deep Work.