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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by aswanson on Sunday November 20, 2016 @11:02AM (#12999465)
The problem with hn is that it's likely to get past your primary defenses and justify itself by telling you the information provided is useful and relevant. Also, the conversations are likely to engage you at a higher level and the many of the arguments require laying out your case like a legal team to be taken seriously.
Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by enraged_camel on Sunday November 20, 2016 @11:21AM (#12999553)
It is useful and relevant. However, just because something is good for you doesn't mean it can't be used as a distraction from another task.
Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by themoat on Sunday November 20, 2016 @11:25AM (#12999571)
Absolutely. There are lots of good, interesting, and useful things to spend time on, but that doesn't mean they are always the right use of my time right now.
Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by m_fayer on Monday November 21, 2016 @04:33PM (#13009410)
That's exactly the problem. If I'm in "work mode" I'm after the thrill of tackling a meaty challenge. Then I don't procrastinate. But when I'm dealing with some tedious dependency hell/build glitches/other slow boring BS, I go looking for my intellectual thrill and before I know it, hello HN.
Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by aswanson on Sunday November 20, 2016 @11:32AM (#12999614)
No argument here, hence my constaclicking.