The Scattering
Following a period of mindfulness and intention, lately I’ve been faffing about in a lot of social media apps that I half-shunned previously (namely foursquare, tumblr, facebook too in small amounts) and I’ve also changed my work email notifications back on.
I call this “The Scattering.” which is both a reference to the period of chaos and unrest in Frank Herbert’s Dune saga following Leto’s death, and to the sort of energy I’m feeling at the moment. There’s a number of ways I could look at this but essentially I got some pent up creativity that I wanted to release. Hmm!
Some of it got turned into undesired outcomes, such as checking out an old facebook app. Some of it was fruitful, using tumblr to collect things from various corners of the web. Some of it I’m still ambivalent about, like “playing” foursquare.
Time to hone it all back down to essentials though. It’s a bit messy using identi.ca/twitter, AND a tumblelog, AND a blog. Deciding what content falls into where is a bit hazy for me. I also share articles with Google Reader, which overlaps with the tumblelog but feedly seriously lacks with the distinguishing-by-type bit.
Or do I even need that at all?
Email notifications are sort of essential when I work at home, though now that my boss got me a cellphone I could probably safely turn it back off.
Hmm!
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