TRIP: Time Reinvestment Plan
Stock dividend reinvestment plans are called DRIP's. What do you do with the time you save using Covey or Getting Things Done or your home grown methodology? Do you have a Time Reinvestment Plan?
I've had this Filipe Fortes article waiting around for comment for an appropriate day. This seems as good as any. Is Technology the Answer for Information Overload?
The dream is half right — technology can improve efficiency. It’s just that, at least in my case, I the savings got reinvested back into consumption. This is a risk for all information gluttons, no matter what the technology (blogs, email, etc).
This is a great comment. Sure, we can use technology to become more efficient and "fix" the problem of information overload. The important question is, "What's next?" So I free an hour a day, what do I do with that hour? Do I invest it in something new? Or do I simply "reinvest" it in doing more of the thing that got me into trouble in the first place?
Of course, the "right" answer is that I can now do the important stuff that always seems to slip through the cracks of the easy or urgent things. But without the discipline (or desire), I end up sliding back into my old habits: reading that one more article or hitting the "get new mail" button just one more time. And today is one of those days.
Have a nice TRIP.
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Jack (gave the PC a good e-slap and am back online now)
Is Technology the Answer for Information Overload? This is a veritable conundrum since without technology that there would be no information overload. Instead, we would wait for the post to arrive sift through the dross (junk mail) and delight at the arrival of our income tax returns and other joyous pieces of news.
Hom sap has to find his/her way of dealing with information overload rather than expecting technology to do it for them. Yet it is human nature to want a quick fix -- I am still waiting for the washing machine that both cleans and irons my shirts since non iron clothes should read nine iron so that we know to club it into shape before wearing.
Like all tools, information technology gives us the potential to do things differently and hopefully better and more efficiently. But I suspect it is more a case of Ying and Yang -- you get something and you lose something so it is about the art of compromise. Interesting how the arrival of fast food was greeted with rapture by busy people and now it is relabelled junk food -- I see a parallel with e-mail here. When we stop thinking and stop questioning what we're doing and how we are doing it the net (no pun intended)result is that we have to accept the consequences of not continually adapting in a world that is constantly changing. Information overload is a symptom of that failure to question ourselves in relation to how well we are managing to deal with what lands on our desks, virtual or otherwise, each day.
Can't comment on TRIP -- I'm a more of a CURB (Computer Users Rage Blog) aficionado and see this as time well spent!
David