WARNING: if you do not wish to read completely incoherent and insignificant quasi philosophical rambling you should turn your head NOW.
Few weeks back, and unfortunately not for he first time I stared at 1467 items on my RSS reader and with trembling hand clicked the ‘mark as read’ button. The new(ish) reality of being a father and starting on a new uber-manic job at hyper, left me me with far less time than I had before to read the blogs I’ve collected over the years.
Deleting all those posts with one click as well as occasional 24-72 hours breaks from Twitter (and life goes on believe it or not…) made me think that not only are we still nowhere near solving the problems of information overload, finding the important signal in the sea of noise etc but also, I cannot escape this (fortunately rare) depressing thought that everything is important and therefore nothing is important(?).
Looking at this for example, makes me both very happy but also a bit depressed
I really don’t mean to be quasi-existential here but when every ephemeral act is stored, when we can live without the things that usually seem very important to us, when we have the option of reaching a million people, and the reality of reaching no one….
So maybe Gandhi was right when he said “Almost everything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you DO IT”. (whatever the f**k he meant by that)”
‘naff said.
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I think it’s important to remember Asi that nothing you do is insignificant.
And think of all that you ‘do’ and you realise that it is insignificant compared to what you do for those you love.
I miss you in the office. I hope you are well my friend.
Posted 14 May 2009 at 11:29 pm ¶I like this post a lot.
’sall.
Posted 17 May 2009 at 10:27 pm ¶i guess Gandhi was right hey?
cheers Greg, thanks Ben
Posted 18 May 2009 at 7:37 am ¶In phase with you my friend… been there and still am from time to time. Here is one of my last Tweets just before I read your post.
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” - Albert Einstein
Time matters… and does not matter at the same time.
Posted 19 May 2009 at 4:02 pm ¶Luc my friend! what a great surprise
fine words indeed….
Posted 19 May 2009 at 9:19 pm ¶Nothing matters to me it seems and nothing is important. Those who seem to genuinely enjoy life tell us to find out what we want, what is important to us, and go after it. I don’t want anything and nothing is important, so what am I to do?
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