Simplify

Technology is great. I live in Silicon Valley and work in the Internet industry. I love what I do and I love the wealth of information available at my fingertips at any moment in time. But the wealth of information is also a burden. I like many Silicon Valley residents, read far too many blogs, spend far too many hours a day checking email, come home from a long day sitting in front of the computer only to spend the evening surfing the web or equally bad, veg out in front of the TV. Over the Thanksgiving break, I decided to simplify my life by using technology to reduce the noise instead of increasing it.

I’ll be evaluating all inputs from my email inbox, my rss feeds, the social networks I check, the tv that I watch, the snail mail that gets my attention, to how I use IM and even the meetings that I attend at work. The goal being to free up my time for the things I really care about. I’ll be blogging about both what I cut out and what I replace it with. It will be an adventure.