Finding My Voice / Headline culture | |
For a few years I've worked off and on a programatic solution to a problem | |
not many people seem to have, or, be aware they have. At some point I | |
realized I was suffering from an entirely self-created "implicit todo-list | |
stress". Be it my Email Inbox, or my Unread RSS Article count, each, and | |
every one of these sources required my unerring attention. | |
I've heard of many people going minimal at this point, but this isn't... | |
"My Thing". I guess you could say I did the opposite. | |
I recall the day Merlin Mann appeared, and Inbox Zero became the thing to | |
achieve. I took the decision, I would Inbox Zero my Pocket ('Read it Later' | |
at the time) list. I worked for months on the cleanup. 99% of the articles | |
had been either obsoleted by articles I'd already read, or - contrary to | |
how I was thinking at the time I'd enqueued it - simply weren't all that | |
important. | |
But the 1%? They made the months of clean up worth while, by a long margin! | |
I was grinning cheek to cheek, day after day. To read! What a gift! | |
For me the evil was not that I consumed too much, it was that I for years | |
had been enqueueing, but what did I have to show for it? You see, it turns | |
out for the last few years I haven't been so much reading, as, well, just | |
making lists. | |
On realizing this it became clear to me this had to change. I simply | |
couldn't bear the idea that those 1% had almost slipped away. I vowed to | |
limit the time collecting and maximize the time indulging. | |
Months later however... my inboxes were in much the same state. | |
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