Now what?

How can I guarantee I’m not missing anything?

A couple of posts ago I ended with a question related to Friendfeed…”how can I guarantee I’m not missing anything?”

Well, reading Susan’s post on Connection vs. Purpose I think I found my answer…it doesn’t matter.

Quoting Susan:

The consistent, ongoing nature of the updates is a great screen for the fact that I am wasting time doing something that feels purposeful, but isn’t. Or, to put it another way, giving too much attention to tools that support social network sharing and monitoring is a way to feel like I am *doing something* that has very limited results.

So the ongoing challenge is to not feel too bad about ignoring this stuff - going to try to take deeper, but less frequent dips into the feed pool.

update on 10/26: related to these thoughts of “feels purposeful but isn’t, there’s Merlin Mann’s recent post on consuming “better” content, which drives home the point about:

“making mindful decisions about the quality of any input that I check repeatedly — as well as any “stuff” I produce. * identify and destroy small-return bullshit”