If I’ve had a little extra bliss in recent weeks, it’s because I finally feel like I’ve mastered control of the ridiculous amounts of information I choose to and not to ingest on a daily basis. I Tweeted about it a while back and instantly got numerous responses from folks wanting to know the secret. I said:
16 yr working, 15 yr InterWebs/email, 7 yr smartphone, 5 yr RSS, 3 yr social networks – finally have info mgmt system that works for me.
First, some context. On average, I:
- Read and react to more than a thousand emails a week
- Send more than 300 emails a week
- Subscribe to a couple hundred RSS feeds, for around 400 posts per day
- Follow 700 Twitter users
- Manage four Twitter accounts
- Keep up with 350 Facebook friends
- Manage a Facebook page
- Have 15 meetings a week that have to be coordinated with other people
- Take 20 phone calls per week
- Have about a dozen topics that I feel like I have to be expert on at all times
- And run a large local website
And somehow, I finally feel like I have control of it all. I trust my system and nothing seems to slip through the cracks.
