Exiting the infocrack crowd

Lately I've been pondering the benefits of the 'always on' approach to infotech, but maybe it's time to shift the focus to 'getting off the crack' and optimizing our time.

In the spirit of Tim Ferris's bestselling book The 4-Hour Workweek, I'll try to keep this post short, especially for those of you on a low information diet.  Keep in mind that Ferris would actually like to disrupt the current trend of information overload, and to terminate our movement toward being an 'always on'  culture!

Pareto's Principle (the 80/20 principle):

20% of your actions will produce 80% of your results

Parkinson's Law:

Batching tasks - letting similar tasks accumulate, then batching them, eg. only emailing or responding several times a week.

Ferris's advice for trying to break non-productive cycles of using information technologies?  Ask yourself this questions 3 times daily:

"Am I being productive, or am I being busy?"

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