Comments on: Death Of The Info-Slut (“I Quit: Part 2″)

By: Janet Beatrice

Janet Beatrice — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:53:25 +0000

This is great, thanks. I just downloaded Rescue Time. And I’m inspired to read Tim’s book again and to create a new email address for clients that is in a different location from my other email addresses.

I have ADD and have found a wonderful time & project management resource that you can try out for free: Achieve Planner by Effexis (www.effexis.com). I’m still on the free trial but after just two days I will probably buy this. Only drawback is that it doesn’t sync with PDAs/phones, but it does sync with Outlook, so that’s a way to get around that.

I’ve also started EEG biofeedback for ADD. It’s been shown to have good results without the drawbacks of medication, plus the results are permanent. It’s not a cure but a treatment. To find a qualified practitioner, visit http://www.bcia.org (Biofeedback Certification Institute of America.

Janet

By: Matthew Heinzel

Matthew Heinzel — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:18:25 +0000

Haddad You’re the man. After my recent tangents with my team this week about what I have coined as “Time Vampires” your post couldn’t have been and birthed and smacked on the ass at a better time. I too am a huge fan of 4HWW and it was fantastic to get a refresher in “Haddad Fashion.” It is hard work to keep the monster at bay…do they have meetings for this yet? Tony Robbins says: “do something for 30 days and it becomes a habit”…or was it Brian Tracy??…hold on let me go see, it’ll only take a second. See how fast the relapse can occur…one day at a time. As I was reading your post I couldn’t help but think of not only all the crap that I waste time reading, but also all of the good stuff too. I think about all the awesome snippets and tidbits of really remarkable useful information that I feed my brain with, but if I don’t use it, isn’t it just part of the“crap pile?” I find rad tools and links to great stuff that could probably make my life better, but I get so busy it goes from the back burner to the garbage disposal before I blink. There is so much time invested that I can never get back. The great news is that it’s not all a waste because most likely a lot of it has stuck subconsciously. It’s when the “crap” sticks subconsciously…like the other day when I was in the zone writing copy and I found myself high jacked thinking tirelessly about the possibility that Taylor Swift and John Mayer may now be seeing each other. That rat bastard. Until next time, word is bond.

By: Maura Thomas (@mnthomas)

Maura Thomas (@mnthomas) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:51:56 +0000

Wow, you certainly had lots of challenges! The feeling you’re searching for, I think, is the feeling of being EMPOWERED over the information: controlling IT so that it doesn’t control you. Right now you’re doing it with the help of restrictions and such, but the result is the same: without all the distractions, you can CHOOSE what to focus on. Great job! It’s called a “top-down cognitive process,” and people who do this more often, report happier lives than people who don’t. It makes sense, we all like to feel like we are in CONTROL of our lives, right? I may have gotten this from an excellent book called Rapt, by Winifred Gallagher, but I research this stuff often for my work. Scientists are starting to suggest another “species” of ADD, which some are calling “Acquired Attention Deficit Disorder,” basically suggesting that we can “train” ourselves into having the symptoms of ADD by always subjecting ourselves to constant interruptions and encouraging our short attention spans. I really believe that the competitive advantage in the coming decades will be the ability to FOCUS, because the kids who are growing up in this technology-rich, information-overload society will be better than the “older folks” at multi-tasking, but multi-tasking will never increase the quality of what you’re working on. Focus matters. And the ability to focus is like any other skill: use it or lose it. Ok, I’ll stop now. I think you’ve inspired a blog post of my own. Or seven. Cuz I could ramble on about this stuff all day. =)

Anyway, great job, and good luck!

By: Chris Haddad

Chris Haddad — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:18:42 +0000

Dave, strangely I scanned it while I was writing it too. Came out pretty well. =-)

By: Chris Haddad

Chris Haddad — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:17:55 +0000

Hey Randy . . .

I have 3 email addresses:

My “Moneyfingers” email which is where active work projects go.
My “Haddadink” email which is kind of a “legacy” email from my old site that a lot of people still have. I funnel a lot of marketing lists there so I can keep up with certain marketers.

And my gmail account.

My two work accounts I really only check twice a day. Sometimes less.

my personal account I still check too much.

Why do you have so may accounts? I bet if you nuked most of them nobody would notice.

By: Randy Cantrell

Randy Cantrell — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:39:57 +0000

Or have grandkids if you’re old like me. My problem is too many stinking email addresses! Chris, how many email addresses do YOU have?

By: Tom Campbell

Tom Campbell — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:51:41 +0000

Another great way to cure it is… having kids!

By: Rees

Rees — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:45:53 +0000

LOL. Dude, this is me. I’m terrible, and on top of that I just got a blackberry. Fuck. Good luck with all this. Keep the posts coming, I really like your stuff.

I’m also lazy as fuck with the internet, and would like to make a request that you enter URL’s to your blog posts in your emails so that I’m more likely to read them. K? Thanks man. Later

BTW: you going to Ryan Lee’s Continuity Summit in March?

By: Mike Humphreys

Mike Humphreys — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:06:17 +0000

Great job Chris. Hope you can stick with your new game-plan. One thing I eliminated that was a major time-suck was all of the IM chat software. I found they were way too easy to go from a “quick chat” to a hour time burn.

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:53:05 +0000

Heh… I scanned it.

Headers are good.

Pacing pretty good.

Familiar with FHWW, zoom over that…

And here’s the irony: I missed this when you posted because I’ve been clearing my RSS reader: “Select All” “Mark Read.”

I’ll dig in a little deeper this afternoon.

More irony: I just wrote a little blog post on scanning vs engagement this morning: “Non-writers writing for non-readers.” The hive mind creeps me out sometimes.