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Finding My Voice / Headline culture |
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For a few years I've worked off and on a programatic solution to a problem |
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not many people seem to have, or, be aware they have. At some point I |
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realized I was suffering from an entirely self-created "implicit todo-list |
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stress". Be it my Email Inbox, or my Unread RSS Article count, each, and |
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every one of these sources required my unerring attention. |
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I've heard of many people going minimal at this point, but this isn't... |
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"My Thing". I guess you could say I did the opposite. |
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I recall the day Merlin Mann appeared, and Inbox Zero became the thing to |
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achieve. I took the decision, I would Inbox Zero my Pocket ('Read it Later' |
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at the time) list. I worked for months on the cleanup. 99% of the articles |
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had been either obsoleted by articles I'd already read, or - contrary to |
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how I was thinking at the time I'd enqueued it - simply weren't all that |
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important. |
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But the 1%? They made the months of clean up worth while, by a long margin! |
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I was grinning cheek to cheek, day after day. To read! What a gift! |
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For me the evil was not that I consumed too much, it was that I for years |
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had been enqueueing, but what did I have to show for it? You see, it turns |
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out for the last few years I haven't been so much reading, as, well, just |
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making lists. |
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On realizing this it became clear to me this had to change. I simply |
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couldn't bear the idea that those 1% had almost slipped away. I vowed to |
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limit the time collecting and maximize the time indulging. |
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Months later however... my inboxes were in much the same state. |
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Gophered by Gophernicus/3.0.1 on Ubuntu/22.04 x86_64 |
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