If you haven't paid a visit to Merlin Mann's blog 43folders - do so now, if only to get the link to a brilliant essay by Greg Knauss called "The Back Logged Life" - its about time someone put it out on the line that stuff online - for business OR for pleasure - is sometimes not worth it, particularly at the expense of having a real life. A few thoughts on this:
- I don't take my Blackberry anywhere unless I'm traveling long distances (like back to DC from Omaha on a workday). No email is so important that it should and can infringe on the life I live after the computer is turned off and the day is done. If it is so important, I would expect you to call. Oh, and this goes doubly for you asshats that check your blackberrys and cell phones while flying.
- I love all the blogs I read, but every morning, I open up my newsreader, scan the titles and lock the 5-10 posts that I think might be worth my time. Everything else gets deleted.
- I have learned to not pick up my phone if I don't actually want to talk to the people who are calling. That goes for you, telemarketers.
I will never know the sum of knowable human knowledge. I will not beat myself up if I don't know about something someone else does, and I realize that deep down, while the Internet and mobile gadgets is/are great and a tool and yada yada, we become its tool if we don't get our act together and act like humans rather than mini-walking-computer-machines.
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