Cal Newport

Like, people were upset about this.

The New York Times commissioned a response op-ed two weeks later that went through mine and said, this is what is wrong about Cal Newport's op-ed or whatever because it made such a furor to suggest it.

And today, it's boring to suggest, like, ah, you know, social media has problems and most people probably shouldn't use it.

People agree with that.

The one that upsets me, though,

That one I feel like people have come along to, and more and more people are being much more selective and minimalist about their social media.

The distraction, email, Slack, constantly jumping back and forth between different things, that just got worse.

I mean, I think people recognize it now.

This is probably not a good way to work.

But I thought because there was dollars and cents here, this is less productive from an economic productivity standpoint to have all of your workers working.

changing their attention all the time.

You're just getting a really low return on all the money you're investing in these human brains.

So I thought, oh, this is dollars and cents.

This is the one that's going to change.

Social media is fun.

That's going to be hard to change people's behavior.

But certainly this hyper-distraction thing in knowledge work, that'll change because we're leaving money on the table.

It hasn't changed at all.

It's gotten worse.

It's worse than it was.