You ever notice how your mouth gets all gummy when you are eating a peanut butter and — insert your favorite compliment here — (mine is sugar) sandwich and you cannot talk? Well, right now my brain feels that way. I just finished reading a book earlier this evening, and have spent the last few hours trying to catch up on my bloglines. Only 374 entries!*
The thing about PB&* is that it seems to get worse and worse until finally your mouth clears, and you are able to talk again (or take another bite ;- ). Well, tonight I cleared out as much of my blog line as I could. There were many posts that I really wanted to read, and then many that looked somewhat interesting when I first saw them, but upon closer review have no context to me.
It is tough to stay on top of all those blogs, let alone the IRC channels and mailing lists and bb forums. Looking in my gmail account, I see that I have the following unread messages to read:
That doesn’t include the daily digest lists that I follow. Think I will ever catch up? Not likely.
If I want to be productive at work I have to tune all of this stuff out. I have tried to keep up with it and my work tasks, and my work tasks quickly became overrun. The irony is that as I became more efficient at monitoring the messages/interuptions, the more messages/interuptions I accepted into my life.
I am trying to pare my input down. The thing is, I have some level of attachment to each of these. For instance, I have had some really interesting conversations in the XP list, and every time I look at the Rails list I am amazed at the things people are doing with that technology and want to be there too.
The first step to treating any addiction is to admit you have a problem, right? Step 1… check.
*I’m down to only 50 now!
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