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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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