The Zawodny (Feed) Diet
Jeremy Zawodny is starting a (feed) diet. He plans to read less and write more.
Let’s call this The Zawodny (Feed) Diet. Jeremy should write a book, make an infomercial and sell diet supplements.
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I spent some time thinking hard about that use of my time yesterday and realized that it’s a classic example of diminishing returns. Since I almost always read that stuff in my own “priority order” I get the most bang for my time in the first 15 minutes or so. Beyond that, I’m panning for gold and it feels like the supply is dwindling. Another 10 minutes spent reading about the latest Dave Winer drama is hardly a good use of my time.
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So it’s time to change my habits–or at least form new ones. For the next two weeks I’m allocating 30 minutes per day to this reading, trolling, and mining effort. There’s no pre-set limit on how much time I’ll spend writing. The returns associated with writing appear to be quite different.
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Someday someone will pull all this ranking, customization, personalization, recommendation, and other magic technology together and give me a great reason to throw out my RSS Aggregator once at for all. Until then, I’m going on a Feed Diet.
[via Chuqet]