Information Overload
Headphones in. A podcast plays on the train to work.
Get to work, stare at screen for 4 hours.
Go for a walk at lunch while listening to a podcast. I’m optimising my time.
Another 4 hours of work.
Arrive home, better check out what’s new on youtube.
More screens, more information.
The boy is now asleep, another youtube video before a shower? Yeah why not.
Better get ready for bed.
Oh wow, somehow the phones made its way into the shower and it’s playing music now.
Bedtime routine is done, music stil playing and it’s time for bed. Better unwind and fall sleep to a podcast.
Fall asleep and repeat the above the next day.
There’s a lot of information coming in each day but it sure doesn’t feel very useful or helpful.
A two hour podcast flies by but can I honestly remember anything from it? I think I would struggle to tell you something useful I learnt last week even though I listened to dozens of podcasts.
How much am I really taking in. Most of these podcasts are popcorn for the mind and I seem to order a XL bucket everyday.
So what am I going to do? Small things at first.
I want to be a bit more bored, have more time with my thoughts and reduce the amount of junk information coming in. More walks without a podcast playing and unwinding before bed with a book instead.