Pete Hindle

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January 27, 2009

I will be ignoring my email for ten days.

I’m travelling to Berlin for ten days, from today, and as such will not have regular access to email. Rather than attempt to keep up with the enormous volume of email I get, or wade through the majority to find the interesting stuff, I’m not going to read any of it. Sorry. It’s a time/efficiency thing; it’s not efficient for me to use my time picking through ten days worth of emails. I’d miss things that were important, dawdle over things that weren’t, and generally just take too long to get back to work.

Therefore, I’m going to just ignore that ten days worth of emails. If you really need to talk to me, you can email me again on the sixth of February.

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September 3, 2008

Dealing with the Noise

I’ve got some changes in my life coming up ahead, and I’ve been thinking about how I’m going to be focusing my attention. One of the really big thinkers in this area is Merlin Mann, and in a post on his blog he lays out some points for dealing with the constant flow of stuff we get from the internet. I like them so much I thought I’d share them here:

  • identify and destroy small-return bullshit;
  • shut off anything that’s noisier than it is useful;
  • make brutally fast decisions about what I don’t need to be doing;
  • avoid anything that feels like fake sincerity (esp. where it may touch money);
  • demand personal focus on making good things;
  • put a handful of real people near the center of everything.

From dealing with the art world, I’d say that the first and last items on that list seem to be so important. But I guess it could be applied to a lot of different areas. Check it out: Better, by Merlin Mann.

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