Christopher Hawkins wrote a great post yesterday that can be summed up in this paragraph:
“Guess what? I don’t care about your web app. I don’t care about the latest developer technology MS is working on. I don’t care about the 19-year old whiz kid who just sold whattimeisit.com to Yahoo for a billion. But by being so plugged in, I have sometimes managed to fool myself into thinking I do care about these things.”
Every time I open FeedDemon and see the hundreds of posts about the iPhone or some of the bleeding edge tech from Microsoft, I can’t help but think that I do care about these things, but in reality, I don’t. I care about solving problems for my clients and providing for my family.
“Basically, if it’s not helping me to secure or complete projects for my company, if it’s not helping me to make money, if it’s not improving my life in some way, it’s mental clutter and it’s out.”
While I’m not ready to unsubscribe from all the feeds I read or delete all my favorites, I am going to scale back a bit and focus more on what’s important and worry less about “the next big thing”.
