The Cyclical Nature of Information Gluttony

You’ve grown fat and slow in your technology journey. Time to ditch the Samsonite full of RSS feeds, “friends”, social media douche-baggery, and get back to doing your best.

Not everyone has sold themselves whole hog into using “The Web” for every aspect of their lives. For those who do attempt to make this trek, there are several points in the journey where the sojourner tries to collect and place their flags on every piece of information they think *might* be useful or *might* have to follow/friend/whatever. This is akin to feature creep or permissions creep. You slowly pack more and more into your bags, and soon your entire scope of discretionary time is claimed by “checking in” and keeping up on what Everybody Else has been up to.

Every six months or so, I take inventory of what I have been putting into my digital rucksack and ask myself if what’s there is really helping me any longer.

Close your FaceBook account if all it’s doing is sucking up more time than than benefiting you. Trim your Twitter Following if you spend more time scrolling past them than reading them. Stop updating that worthless location based, badge collection app (because, God do we all find it annoying). Stop joining “social media” websites. They aren’t really social, and all you are doing is wasting brain cycles.

To the best of your ability: Quit being a digital pack rat.
You’ll truly thank yourself.