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Staying informed requires active attention

Aaron Levie describes staying connected to information and trying tools himself instead of waiting for someone to email him an article.

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Box's Aaron Levie: On Reinventing Yourself in the AI Age and Enterprise Diffusion

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I want to send an emergency alert to everybody who's a sophomore or junior in college and just be like, follow these 20 accounts on Twitter—and also join Twitter—because this will just help your career.
Context

You're either a year ahead or a year behind simply based on your feed. And my feed is so wired in. I'll still talk to 20-year-olds that are like, "Yeah, I see some articles," and I'm like, what do you mean? How do you see articles? I don't even know what that means. Do you just get lucky that somebody emailed you an article? You just have to be wired in. I enjoy it. It's a lot of fun. I play with everything.

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