Three weeks ago I quit social media. That left me with some newfound time and attention that I didn’t want to squander. So I pulled the book Deep Work by Cal Newport, which I’d read years earlier, off the shelf. I have no doubt that my first reading of that…

For the past decade I’ve been building my online business under the assumption that I needed to be on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram in order to succeed. I’m now testing that assumption. Earlier this week I deleted each of those three accounts, without notice, and I’d like to explain why. …