Where Do You Find The Time?

You slant your lifestyle to those things that matter to you.  If I was a coin collector, I'd take every free minute I had to be researching the latest trend on the reemergence of the '22 nickel slug and how it showed up at some random event at a Holiday Inn by the airport in Skogie, IL.  I'd commune online with my fellow coinatarians and I'd probably have a favorite tee shirt or hat with some arcane show reference as a point of pride for my hobby.   

Coins aren't my thing, nor civil war reenactments, nor throwback jerseys, nor logo golf balls.  As you've read here, I'm more into marketing science, linguistics, memetics and basic cultural anthropology; a good wine pairing, breaking 80 more often and a fresh pot of steamed crabs on the deck.

Straight to the point, how do you find the time to work, blog, twitter, exercise, relax, flickr, church, lunch, vacation . . . ??

Noah Brier pointed me to the Web 2.0 speech transcript from Clay Shirky - Gin, Television and Social Surplus that gives great insight into where the time comes from; and gives a brilliant history lesson on the difficulty of society to digest the shift in communications underway.  Here's a snip:

Here's something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted at you but doesn't include you may not be worth sitting still for. Those are things that make me believe that this is a one-way change. Because four year olds, the people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment, who won't have to go through the trauma that I have to go through of trying to unlearn a childhood spent watching Gilligan's Island, they just assume that media includes consuming, producing and sharing.

So what?  Well I have a near four-year-old and I'm not interested in being irrelevant.

 

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