Avoiding electronic Katamari Damacy
Brian Oberkirch has had a “no mas” moment, and has decided to simplify his online life. To save you even more time, I’ve condensed his list to the bare essentials:
- Delete all newsreader feeds and start from scratch. (if you don’t have any newsreader feeds, do the same with your bookmarks)
- Check email where you put your hands on the steering wheel: 10, 2, and 4.
- Get rid of email notifications from social networking sites, remove self from email discussion groups, etc.
- Keep “IM office hours” rather than staying on all the time.
- No answering emails on sat/sun, one review per day.
The bottom line is that you don’t have to be available every minute to everyone. And from time to time, it’s good to clean up just about everything the way he handles feeds: take everything out of a desk, medicine cabinet, kitchen, and put back only what gets used often, relegating the rest to storage. Otherwise you end up like Katamari Damacy, accruing crap as you roll through life.
He also recommends the Four-hour Work Week
