Bjork-07: The Homecoming
Looks like after a lot of beating about Bjork has finally went and became what she always intented to - an arena rock star!
Laugh all you like, but take Tarantino, for instance. Judging by Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, you might think he’s into independend films. But if you look at what he’s done lately, you’ll see that b-movies are more like his archetype.
What cripples Bjork as a metal goddess though is her anything-but-guitars notion. This year it’s brass section and reactable. Can you imagine Joga with brass?
Out of The Sun
The net is, of course, full of personal development recipes and productivity hacks (see stevepavlina.com and 43folders.com for examples). But personal is personal: one size does not fit all and sometimes you just have to face a personal problem only you can solve.
I personally have (or, hopefully, had) a problem ending my workday. I work at home, which only makes it worse, if anything, but I use the inet. It might be ok, if not for me being the junkie material.
Which is exactly why I don't read mags or watch TV or play videogames or smoke pot: it tends to take all my time. You might say it's a mixed curse, since TV, mags and even VG are getting useless pretty fast. Pot might have some use, and I've learned quite a lot from it, but it has it's own downsides. It is bad for my discipline to start with, and I've had way more pot than self-discipline in my life.
Anyway, when its come to getting out of the net mode, the curse become very real and obvious. I'm all over the net. I have five to ten apps on the taskbar, which is usually too much for me to concentrate especially since, obviously, not all of them are related to the task at hand. I open and read the pages compulsively, and since I've banned a lot of interesting reading with my firewall, I end up opening the blogs for apps I don't even use.
Which is exactly where the secluded account come in handy. It has all the toys I need for the real act of writing - or for journalling, or for reviewing my numerous unfinished works, or even messing with my Projects.xls, but not more.
The problem is to get into that account after a day on the net. I finish my salary job at 19:00 to 19:30, but till recently it's been a typical scenario when I logged off from my regular account at 20:30, or even later.
Just the other day I've opened a Wkipedia article. Granted, I was doing research for one of my writing projects. And I've learned some stuff - mostly unrelated to the any project I'm working at. That's ok, I don't want my curiousity to starve but I wasn't really immersed in that article, so I started to do something else. Quite a few things, actually.
The result? I got up from my computer about 21:10, tired, displeased with myself and sick with irrelevant data.
How does it happen? Well, my first mistake was to go to Wikipedia without it being planned ahead. I should know where it ends, being down that road for so many times. Besides, I've got lots of other little things to do if I need to take a break from my job, like doing the dishes, or doing pushups, or drumming, or whatever.
So, if I really think I need to research something (and I do have things to research), I might want to put it down and then maybe let it simmer while I sort out whether it's all that nessesary. No, that's not russian bureaucracy in action, but rather trying to save me some trouble. I've only got one life and one head, both of which are of limited capacity. And I can't read all the time: I need time to write, remember?
Of course you do. On to my second mistake, then.
Which was not stopping when I should have. If my internet time is gone and it's obviously going to take more than 2 minutes to finish the task and it's not urgent, the right thing to do is to put it in my RMilk account and see it tomorrow.
And if it takes 2 minutes or less by the way, I've better finish it at once, without pouring me some tea or making playlists or other tasks or whatever.
There was a third mistake too. Did you know? Why, I've noticed only just, too.
But it's rather important. I was getting bored, I was feeling like I'm getting nothing out of that article, but instead of just dropping it, I kept grabbing at other things to help me through.
Which is both stupid and dangerous. I mean, isn't it a good chance to bore the readers, when I'm not even fully aware when I'm bored myself?
Ok, I'll write about awareness in GTD later. Until then - be aware. Be very aware.
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