> Take my advice with a pinch of salt. Having too much media to consume is > something that I still struggle with (my bedside table of books I want to > read is overflowing, I have ~40 unlistened to podcast episodes on my phone, > I have 30+ unread long form articles that I sent to my Kindle to read later > at my leisure). > > 1. You don't have to subscribe to every blog, journal, subreddit, > newspaper, etc. Subscribe to a handful of interesting re-bloggers/sources > like Kottke, bOingbOing, MeFi and you will know most of what's happening > with the world. > > 2. Don't be a complete-ist. You don't have to read everything from your > favorite sources. Read a day or two's worth of posts from your sources. > Anything older than that is probably no longer relevant. > > 3. Learn to skim. A big portion of posts even from your favorite sources > are likely posts that would be without value if you were to look at it a > year from now. Learn the art of reading the truly important and skimming or > ignoring the rest. > > 4. Unplug your Cable TV. > > 5. Unplug from the Internet every once in a while. Going for a walk, go > hike in a forest, go camp by a river side. Do it often (every couple of > weeks). For consumed Information to become Knowledge and eventually Wisdom, > it needs to be digested. You cannot digest if you keep consuming more > Information. > > 6. You don't have to know that something has happened the instant it > happened. If important stuff is happening in the world, you will become > aware of it eventually and it would not matter that you heard about it > within minutes or days of the event. > > 7. Try this experiment: Completely cut off from your Email and Social Media > and News sources for a week or a month. Does life still go on? Did you > really miss much? > > 8. It is far more important to be a kind, gentle, humane, mindful person > than a person who knows the most facts.
@Thaths: Thanks for sharing this advice. Really liked the last point and the structuring in your reply. That said, points 1,2,3,5 are those which I haven't yet mastered. Time to start doing that :-) @Deepa/Udhay: Thanks for sharing your comments.
