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Another tech journalist slammed by bits
Apr 22, 2008
Over at TechCrunch, yet another technology journalist admits that he can't manage his incoming bitstreams:
I need less data, not more data. I need to know what is important, and I don’t have time to sift through thousands of Tweets and Friendfeed messages and blog posts and emails and IMs a day to find the five things that I really need to know.
He's exactly right in his diagnosis of the problem: too many bits, from too many bitstreams.
But as for the solution... if you've been following my recent posts, you know exactly what he writes next: the Technology Wish. Here it comes, the very next paragraph:
So where is the startup that is going to be my information filter? I am aware of a few companies working on this problem, but I have yet to see one that has solved it in a compelling way. Can someone please do this for me? Please? I need help. We all do.
In other words, "I have too much technology - so, please, let's create more technology!"
He should read Bit Literacy instead.
(TechCrunch is the #1 technology website in the world, or close to it... this is the voice of the technology industry - being strangled by incoming information and waiting in vain for a tool to solve the problem.)
See also:
• The journalist's Technology Wish
Yeah, he should read Bit Literacy. It was an amazing feeling a week ago at one minute to five when I reached the zero inbox state. And it's been that way since. Still working through the other aspects but an empty e-mail in box rocks!
Yeah, I know someone who every three months deletes her entire inbox, and then emails alls her contacts saying - "I've lost/broken/had stolen my latop, if you sent me anything really important in the past month, please re send it." She gets five mails back.
Bit Literacy helped me immensely, many thanks. Yes, I delete and move and delegate and manage bits until my inbox is empty at the end of the day. I would also highly recommend David Allen's "Getting Things Done." I'm told that there are several websites dedicated to this guy who is viewed as a guru of managing the information flow. I think it's a very handy companion piece to Bit Literacy!