Comments on: I want to write more. Do more. Hack more. Learn more. So I gotta read less.

By: Jona

Jona — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:00:13 +0000

I so know what you mean. I think I’m going to cut my feeds down too because honestly, I’m not reading all of them.

By: Tom Offermann

Tom Offermann — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:46:07 +0000

I know exactly what you mean. I’ve adopted the personal motto of “More output. Less input.”…but living up to it isn’t always easy.

It’s hard to resist the siren call of the feed reader!

I’d love to know your thoughts after 30 days: Did you miss all the feeds you cut? Did you find yourself adding new feeds?

By: Josh Bancroft

Josh Bancroft — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:40:36 +0000

@Aaron that’s what I’m counting on!

By: Aaron B. Hockley

Aaron B. Hockley — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:32:07 +0000

At some point one has to filter for value. Some do that by reducing the amount of incoming material, some do that by only reading some of what arrives, some do that through various other means. I don’t think anyone is going to fault you for trying to get things under control.

And don’t worry. We’ll tell you if you miss something

By: Josh Bancroft

Josh Bancroft — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:23:29 +0000

Heh. Good point. Of those, the only one I really use is Twitter. I keep the following open in tabs at all times (my “standard loadout”):

iGoogle
Gmail
Google Reader
Google Calendar
Twitter
Flickr
My Blog

So Twitter and Flickr are the only “social sites” I really spend time on. And Flickr is just an occasional check for new comments to respond to (which I also get via RSS), or new photos from my contacts (which as of today, I no longer get via RSS). That leaves Twitter, which streams by in a Twitterrific window I keep open (when it works).

By: Brent Logan

Brent Logan — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:25:55 +0000

Sure you’re cutting out the feeds, but what about all the social networking sites and aggregaters like twitter, pownce, spokeo, friendfeed, brightkite, plurk, zobzee, …

By: Silicon Florist

Silicon Florist — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I want to write more. Do more. Hack more. Learn more. So I gotta read less.

By: Martin Gordon's Blog

Martin Gordon's Blog — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

So after an 8-post April and a 2-post May, Russell was back up to around 20 posts in June, about what he was doing prior to the two “slow” months. Fellow Arsian Josh Bancroft not-so-recently wrote about how he wants “write more. Do more. Hack more. Learn more.” In that post he writes on a topic that I’ve touched on a bunch of times over the years - making the transition from consumer to producer. I think Josh is way more on the producer side than I am, and his desire to move even further in that direction