themadpeacock

Objectively assessing the decisions we make and the benefit we get from them forces us to confront our prejudices. Family or work, Mac or Windows, AT&T or A good network.. even Time or Money. Going into these assessments we all have bias’s we consciously recognize and some we don’t.

A pile of books sits on my side table, physical books. Most of them best sellers and all of them recommended by people I trust.

But last night I sat next to this stack of authoritative, consumer endorsed, well-edited wisdom and read a stream of blogs and tweets. I even contributed to the mindless jetsam of tweets by sharing my thoughts on a movie I was watching! WHO CARES!

At the end of the evening I tried to think why; my first thought was that I was “now” addicted, the world moves fast, books take years to write and get published, at best they are two years out of date and in tech-years that’s OLD.

But that’s not it; I believe Crossing the Chasm has more to teach tech CEO’s today than most blogs and it’s a million years old in tech years.

So; resolutions from an evening in the digital gutter

1. Significantly cut my digital “follow” list
2. Read timeless books in search of wisdom and patterns
3. And I will strive for timeless value when I write

I suggest you join your local library and do the same, even if this blog is one of the ones you cut.