Talk is Expensive
There is no shortage of really great things to read on the internet. I mean incredibly informative, brilliant, inspiring stuff.
Right now I could go read You Can Increase Your Intelligence, Hacking the American Dream,Similarity Between Musicians and Entrepreneurs, or several different perspectives on the LinkedIn IPO (a pretty big deal). All of those are relevant to what I am doing and may be helpful for me to read. Those links are also just the ones I am interested in reading on Hacker News right now. There are also the blogs I subscribe to (only a few really great ones now) and the general news sites. Oh, and the several interesting links I saw on Facebook today like The Problem with Great Ideas.
The cliché is that “talk is cheap”, but I think listening to all that talk is incredibly expensive. I just can’t afford all this talk.
It is great that we have all of this excellent information out there. I love that people are focusing on creating quality content. I am also excited to see more and more of a focus on curating. I was wrong when I said 2008 would be the Year of the Editor. I am hopeful that curation is a growing trend. I just need to limit the amount of time that I read all this great stuff.
You’re right, It can easily be overwhelming. Especially for someone like me who borders on compulsive when it comes to learning new things. I always want to know more. I’m acutely aware of how much I don’t know. So it’s a constant challenge to remind myself that there is a time to just stop reading and start doing.
I am with you Darin. I am a learner through and through.
It’s so true Jackson. It’s a real challenge.
In my interview on Jumpstart with Justin Davis, he spoke about a small group he connects with weekly to talk about his business and to bounce ideas with. I hear more and more about such groups and think this is such a great idea.
My thinking here is that perhaps putting together a small group and then sharing relevant links with each other is the way to go.
I know @cspenn and @mitchjoel share 5 links with each other each day. They use a hashtag so they can track them, but they share them publicly too, so that others may enjoy them.
Perhaps a small group sharing a few relevant links each day is the way to go. What do you think?
That could be interesting Dave. Especially if there was an RSS feed of everything that group shared so it could be part of my morning iPad routine.
Maybe limit it to 2-3 links per person?
If you do it, count me in.