The time spent defending a point made on this platform is better spent doing literally anything else.
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I have a very double edged relationship with twitter. I've met great people, but I can't really deny it usually doesn't have the best influence on my happiness. Sounds like you have a similar relationship with it. How do you square continuing to use it?
I tell myself (truthfully) that using it in a minimal way is good. Then I use it much more.
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I don't think Twitter is unique in that past a certain point it has diminishing or even negative returns. But the kind of short bursts of intellectual stimulation that I find on Twitter, which I started to use regularly only last year, has been unmatched elsewhere.
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Its stimulation in general, the mechanics of its components (retweet, follow) leads to an all-out assault on the senses being procured to your feed. Think traditional media but automatically refined.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The good news is that we 15 min/day Twitterers benefit from the daily dose of pg available here. But as for you personally, the track record suggests you might be more fulfilled with a deep project. Did you feel better on a day-to-day basis when writing Bel?
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Actually I used Twitter way too much when writing Bel, because it was so slow that I had to wait minutes for code to load and tests to run, and during those waits I'd check Twitter.
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