re: Woah there cowboy, you've got information overload!

apoc — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:03:31 GMT

lol, i've got a similar problem, but only with the rss subscriptions, i've got 64, i really don't know how many per day, i try to read them in the morning when i arrive at work and at night when i get home, this morning i had 211 unread items and spent almost .. well the whole morning reading them and drilling into the information, as i read them new ones appear and i cannot resist to read them lol, recently i've been adding a few sharepoint & microsoft blogs so, the information flow has obviously increased.

I've noticed i spend more and more time reading rss and already thought about doing "an information diet" but then I start thinking [paranoid] that i might loose important info if i stop reading, like if I skip an item it may contain info that someday later could have helped me to solve a problem, and as i said, i really get paranoid about that, plus, it gives me great great pleasure to help other people with the info i learned =)

I think i've got some kind of trauma wich causes this behaviour, ever since i remember i'm used to carry all the objects i think that may be useful to me, when i was in school i used to always carry all of my books, there were no lockers, so, if there was a change of schedule i was prepared with the right school books for the class =P , it later evolved to hardware, i always carry my laptop with me, and with it an external hd with everything i need in case of a problem with the laptop, productivity applications, backups, etc, also, the laptop recovery cds, a/v cables, card readers, a couple of blank dvds & cds just in case, charger for my headset, pocket pc and laptop(that's another think that freaks me out, battery depletion, nothing worse than to be unable to use your own laptop because of a dead battery, i mean, it's there, you can turn the switch but nothing hapens , a simple charger would solve the problem), i also have a copy of my FireFox profile hosted on a web-server and an always-on pc at home in case i forget about anything(file/info) there, another thing is an everywhere internet-connection, powered by a Vodafone mobile connect card in case i need to fetch info from the net while on the move lol, without all of this i simply feel insecure.

Oddly enough, if I am 100% sure that I will not need anything of this, I don't get paranoid and i can easely spend a few days without these safety measures with no signs of addiction.

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