The world today is a hectic place. Especially if you are an active internet connoiseur, and in particular if you are involved with larger parts of the so-called Web 2.0 Movement, you ought to know what I'm talking about. Twitter, near real-time mail checking, the facebook live feed, and now the new and shiny google instant all present us with a constant torrent of information.
Combine this with your information drug of choice, be that self-deceptive "research" on wikipedia, mindless surfing on Digg, slightly less mindless surfing on reddit, clicking through tvTropes, playing yet another flash-game on Kongregate, checking through your favourite blogs again, scrambling about on youtube, catching up on world news or clicking the StumbleUpon-button just one more time, and you are not unlikely to end up a reduced information-overloaded, somewhat agitated, desocialized pile of person with a lack of both actual focus and defined interests and a < 10 second attention span.
This makes it difficult to do much anything. You never really have time to settle into a mindset to do something, because you are constantly derailed by an urge to check a feed or a blog; click a link or a button. Are you able to sit down in front of a computer, mentally isolate yourself from the information and just do something for more than 20 minutes? I have found myself lured by the mezmerizing realm of the internet more than once, floating through the day (and night) on a wave of apathy, laziness and fascination, and now, I want to do something about it.
Starting next week, I will try to make myself into an effective working being with an increased attention span, increased reliability and, hopefully, increased knowledge (+5 mana (some geek jokes are always allowed; I just finished reading Scott Pilgrim)).
Don't commend me yet. I have yet to deserve it.
Will post updates.
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