Two-Hour-Tether (or better name someone else comes up with)
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:51 pm
Kind of in the weekend luddite vein...
I've got a deadline for a big project. The closer the deadline gets, the more time I spend not working on it. 90% of my non-working time is spent on email, blogs, bulletin boards, and all of that delicious stuff.
I've figured out (I think) that two hours a day should be enough online time to deal with my email, keep up with the blogs related to my industry (including my own), and monitor the sites I read for my own enjoyment. I could do the two hours all at once, or break it into chunks - preferably not chunks of less than 30 minutes, because I can see that 8 15-minute sessions could be harder to manage and the idea is to not have constant small interruptions. (Of course if I were doing this in true everyday systems tradition I guess I would make it like "114.5-minute-tether" or something. But I wanted to alliterate.)
Problem is that the project I'm working on all has to be done at the computer, so the temptation is right there. Like trying to No S while sitting in front of an open fridge all day. But I know everyone pretty much has the same problem these days as life revolves around the computer, so that's just an excuse.
I'm going to start by trying this tomorrow. (Yeah, yeah, "Do. Or do not. There is no 'try.'")
I've got a deadline for a big project. The closer the deadline gets, the more time I spend not working on it. 90% of my non-working time is spent on email, blogs, bulletin boards, and all of that delicious stuff.
I've figured out (I think) that two hours a day should be enough online time to deal with my email, keep up with the blogs related to my industry (including my own), and monitor the sites I read for my own enjoyment. I could do the two hours all at once, or break it into chunks - preferably not chunks of less than 30 minutes, because I can see that 8 15-minute sessions could be harder to manage and the idea is to not have constant small interruptions. (Of course if I were doing this in true everyday systems tradition I guess I would make it like "114.5-minute-tether" or something. But I wanted to alliterate.)
Problem is that the project I'm working on all has to be done at the computer, so the temptation is right there. Like trying to No S while sitting in front of an open fridge all day. But I know everyone pretty much has the same problem these days as life revolves around the computer, so that's just an excuse.
I'm going to start by trying this tomorrow. (Yeah, yeah, "Do. Or do not. There is no 'try.'")