On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Sumant Srivathsan <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I'm rarely online over the weekend, except for the obligatory email > checking. Any soc-net activity takes place during that time. I like not > having to look at my computer when I'm not working. > Sumant & I have had quite a few discussions about this actually. I admire how he manages to get stuff done with so much soc-net activity. As for me, I played with twitter, found it useful & engaging, but too much work, and left off. I still log on once in a while but i usually get my friends' tweets as an RSS feed. (I know! Sacrilegious philistine) I used friendfeed but it got to be a tad too much inanity after a while. Between Silk, Satin, Gmail, Facebook & the 100-odd feeds on google reader, I don't seem to have enough energy/time left for anything else. And lest I forget, there's tons of activity on both the online & offline avatars of my various alumni associations (4 institutions; 7 associations) and groups of real-life friends and my various B-school teaching & interviewing assignments. Oh and yes! there's books (43 unread still on my bookshelf) (And yes TF: I know! I'm guilty of not giving enough time to DBB. Someday! Hopefully soon...) Writing this I'm reminded anew of the need to reduce some of this stuff and simplify my life. Information addiction is worse than any other :p My only "success" so far has been the resolve (broken every once in a while) that I will not log on to my emails/internet over the weekend. That time is for family, books & films :) - Mo
