{"id":520,"date":"2015-02-16T22:32:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T06:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2015-02-16T22:32:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T06:32:11","slug":"conscious-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/16\/conscious-consumption\/","title":{"rendered":"Conscious Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\/01\/26\/radical-creation\/\">posted about &#8220;Radical Creation&#8221;<\/a>&#8211;stopping reading, watching TV, listening to podcasts etc. to re-focus on creating content and move away from constant consumption. It was a successful experiment. I came away from it refreshed and with a more conscious approach to media. I&#8217;m no longer cold-turkey, and have moved back toward the middle; toward what feels like a better place. This has resulted in me&nbsp;setting&nbsp;a few informal rules:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Give time to think, write and process anything you consume. If you haven&#8217;t done that for the last thing you read, listened to or watched, don&#8217;t start something new.<\/li>\n<li>Write about it. Even if it&#8217;s just jotting down a quick note, write something about everything you take in. This is to help remember it later, but more importantly, to remember it now.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Triage.&nbsp;Consume all types of information, but be aware of the relative value. It&#8217;s not always easy to put something down midway through, but do a gut check. If it&#8217;s not working out, move on.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theshallowsbook.com\/nicholascarr\/Nicholas_Carrs_The_Shallows.html\">The Shallows<\/a>&#8220;. It&#8217;s easy to spend all available time reading Twitter or Hacker News, but there is more out there. The best fish aren&#8217;t found in shallow water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since taking that approach, I&#8217;ve been writing significantly more, have re-started some side coding projects and have generally felt more in touch with the present and more conscious of how what I consume affects me. It&#8217;s been a good reset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago I posted about &#8220;Radical Creation&#8221;&#8211;stopping reading, watching TV, listening to podcasts etc. to re-focus on creating content and move away from constant consumption. It was a successful experiment. I came away from it refreshed and with a more conscious approach to media. I&#8217;m no longer cold-turkey, and have moved back toward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-8o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}