turning down the volume… | Gapingvoid
Hugh McLeod (author of Ignore Everybody which I just finished; great book) offers some incredible insight that most of us don’t want to hear. Unplug?! Are you crazy? Maybe not.
Recently I did something dra ma tic: I got rid of my Black berry, and I star ted lea ving my com pu ter at the office. So now I am without (GASP!) Inter net access 12 – 16 hours a day! The “Always-On Cul ture” had been fee ling oppres sive for a while now. Finally I deci ded to do something about it. Basta. The big gest bene fit so far is; I’m drawing a hell of a lot more. This is, after all, what I get paid to do, and what I’ll be remem be red for. Nobody will ever care how many Twitter follo wers I had or how SEO-optimized my blog was. The Inter net libe ra tes us from so much; it’s our duty not to become again ens la ved by something else.
