Re: [silk] Writing with the pack (Srini RamaKrishnan)
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:01, Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.com wrote: Have you ever tried going a few weeks without consuming news or analysis or news media of any form - I mean cold turkey, no way to whet your appetite. No TV, no radio, no blogs, no podcasts, no magazines, no newspapers. It's remarkably productive. This sounds fascinating even though I've never tried it. I've tried being away from cellphone for a month. On a practical note, where does one go to get away from the news though? You'd wonder why they have a timetable[0] for doing nothing. Easier read than done:) By the end of the second day if you dont go crazy yearning for someone to talk to and somehow manage to get through the 10 days, you'll definitely miss the silence on the 11th day. [0] http://www.dhamma.org/en/code.shtml -- .
Re: [silk] Writing with the pack (Srini RamaKrishnan)
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:37 AM, . svaks...@gmail.com wrote: somehow manage to get through the 10 days, you'll definitely miss the silence on the 11th day. Well, Svaksha, you've managed to be silent on this mailing list for a lot longer than that...and you seem to be thriving!
Re: [silk] Writing with the pack (Srini RamaKrishnan)
At 2010-05-13 09:46:12 +0530, narayan.sh...@gmail.com wrote: On a practical note, where does one go to get away from the news though? I think the idea is to choose not to consume it, not go somewhere where there is none to consume. -- ams
Re: [silk] Writing with the pack (Srini RamaKrishnan)
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 01:26:18PM +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: On a practical note, where does one go to get away from the news though? I think the idea is to choose not to consume it, not go somewhere where there is none to consume. There's also a quality -- you can easily choose to tune out TV, radio and newspapers, yet get your other fix from aggregating filtering sources like reddit (by judiciously picking your subscriptions). You'll still get crosstalk/contamination, but that's manageable. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
Re: [silk] Writing with the pack (Srini RamaKrishnan)
One way I serendipitously found was to live far away.when I read the newspaper online, I was struck by how much is quite irrelevant over a period of time...when I return to India, I find myself glossing over a lot of the newspaper. But I agree that the info about when I won't get water in my taps or electricity in my home is very necessary :) Deepa.
Re: [silk] Writing with the pack (Srini RamaKrishnan)
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.com wrote: This sounds fascinating even though I've never tried it. I've tried being away from cellphone for a month. On a practical note, where does one go to get away from the news though? It's not easy I agree. It's possible to be judicious about what you consume as Eugen says, but it's usually only possible when you have something else to occupy your time with. Once you stop reading news / RSS and watching TV you'll suddenly have a lot of time on your hands and unless you have an alternative use for it, you'll just be bored. In my case I intensively took up sports. Last week I worked a full week, but I also ran 40+ kms ^800m, hiked 70+ kms ^4000m (was without cell phone signal for at least 24 hours), spent a night in the woods, got wet in the rain multiple times and enjoyed it every time, read the latest issue of National Geographic cover to cover in one sitting, spent at least 8 hours talking with friends while running and hiking, attended German classes and enjoyed it, watched a James Bond movie at home because I felt like watching one, and I still managed to learn that the volcano was spewing ash again over Europe, there was an election in UK with some sort of awkward result and there was some commotion in India over something unimportant - yet again. In addition, in the last year I've deleted my facebook account, simply stopped visiting a lot of my web haunts - dopplr, linkedin, flickr (...), unsubscribed from most of my mailing lists only choosing to keep a handful. In addition I don't receive any newspapers at home, though I do subscribe to the National Geographic magazine and that's something I like. I didn't have a TV until some months back, even now I don't have cable so I only use it to watch movies - and that's rare. I don't listen to the radio, though I have mp3 players. I keep twitter around for some social contact with people I can't meet physically, but I've stopped blogging since it takes too much time to write a post. It's harder to get away from media if your family routine is centered around it - such as reading the newspaper at the breakfast table, or watching TV at dinner time and so on. It's useful to be alone, you obviously control a lot of what you do then, but not necessary. It's very important to be able to get away - I don't currently have a work requirement to be reachable all the time for example. Cheeni
Re: [silk] Writing with the pack (Srini RamaKrishnan)
This reminds me of a prescient quote.. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. Herbert Simon ..1978 Nobel laureate in economics and the Turing prize From: Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.com To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 9:46:12 AM Subject: Re: [silk] Writing with the pack (Srini RamaKrishnan) Have you ever tried going a few weeks without consuming news or analysis or news media of any form - I mean cold turkey, no way to whet your appetite. No TV, no radio, no blogs, no podcasts, no magazines, no newspapers. It's remarkably productive. This sounds fascinating even though I've never tried it. I've tried being away from cellphone for a month. On a practical note, where does one go to get away from the news though?
Re: [silk] Writing with the pack (Srini RamaKrishnan)
Have you ever tried going a few weeks without consuming news or analysis or news media of any form - I mean cold turkey, no way to whet your appetite. No TV, no radio, no blogs, no podcasts, no magazines, no newspapers. It's remarkably productive. This sounds fascinating even though I've never tried it. I've tried being away from cellphone for a month. On a practical note, where does one go to get away from the news though?
