I agree with all of your points. I haven't gotten to quite quit social media, but I only check when I want to (too often). No notifications anywhere. Phone alwa

I agree with all of your points. I haven't gotten to quite quit social media, but I only check when I want to (too often). No notifications anywhere. Phone always on Do Not Disturb mode. The reason I find it hard to quit quit, is that I get a lot of value from posting. Not passive reading, but active engagement. Comment here, write a tweet there, repost this or that ... it's had a measurable impact on my life. Measurable on the level of "If I wasn't active on social media, I'd be living in Slovenia on a $15,000/year webdev salary instead of engineering in downtown San Francisco". So yeah, it's hard to quit. But I try to spend as little time reading as possible. Also, if you get on the right social networks (in the broadest sense), it can have the "open door" effect Hamming talks about in his famous essay. > I noticed the following facts about people who work with the door open or the door closed. I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don't know quite know what problems are worth working on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in importance. He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html