« Boring solar, "interesting" nuclear | Main | "Access Denied" map » "I'd rather be blogging"As November sets in and the weatherman promises a temperature drop below the 80s (we're living i n the New Tropics here), I find myself thinking about time, which is always Running Out – and later in life, time runs faster and faster. Last night I resigned as president of EFF-Austin. a significant step considering that I've been president since 2001, when Steve Jackson and I revived the organization, then a decade old and fallen dormant. It had become a habit, not particularly effective; hopefully the remaining board members can make something of it. People say that they don't understand how I can do as much as I do, and it's true that I'm pretty good at handling many tasks and responsibilities at once, though in heavy overcommitment phases some projects inherently suffer, and I'm learning to be more careful about commitments and drop stuff that's lower priority. This is just good time management. The down side of well-managed overcommitment can be that you drop things that are fun, and things that you care about, because as your calendar fills to the brim, they become the low priority items. Over the last few months I've been in startup phase with a new company, and I've also been building structure for an existing company after a reorganization; now I have two companies. I started writing a weekly column for Worldchanging, and I'm active with Bootstrap and the Digital Convergence Initiative, and working on other economic development projects. I also started intense daily workouts that take over an hour. Some things I care about aren't happening, though, especially this blog. I've heard people say that blogging is passé, blogs are dying, everybody's on Facebook now, or Twitter, instead. I occasionally tweet on Twitter, and I spend time on Facebook, and I really get it... that's where the action is. Or Second Life/World of Warcraft, if you prefer virtual worlds. Many places to go online, much to do, new stuff popping up every day. I thought about creating a bumpersticker that says "I'd rather be blogging." Blogging really works for me, I'm not going to stop, even if a team of social scientists produce clear proof that this was just a fad... I ain't buying it. Blogging is just one of those things I care about that I shoved onto the back burner. My early new year's resolution: I'll make time for it again, and write more and better stuff. In just a minute.... jon posted this at 7:50 AM |
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