Do you need to read this?
blogging October 14th. 2009, 12:07pmThat’s the question, isn’t it? You might find this blog post via a Google search, a Twitter link, by E-Mail or in your RSS reader of choice. Then what?
This post is one of thousands of pieces of information that you have to discover, evaluate, and process today. The late author David Foster Wallace once said that he was bombarded with half a million bits of information each day and he had to try to figure out which 25 were important. We’re all in the same boat, even if the scale and ratio is different.
Do you need to read this? Is it worth your time?
I can’t answer that for you. My inclination is to say yes, but I don’t always know what your needs and interests are. Heck, most of the time I don’t even know who you are (although there are a number of you who are regular readers and subscribers, which helps me keep going).
The best I can do is to try to live up to the following:
- I appreciate every single reader
- I appreciate subscribers
- I appreciate the people who take the time to comment
- I appreciate everyone who reaches out via other tools like E-Mail, forums, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
- I also appreciate feedback, unsolicited or otherwise. We’d all like more feedback, wouldn’t we? I’m always open to it, publicly or privately.
But this is where it really counts:
I try to share stuff that’s worth sharing, either my own or other people’s stuff. If there’s a common theme here (and I do wonder how well I do at sticking to a theme), I’d have to say it’s about ways to climb Maslow’s pyramid, the hierarchy of human needs. I’m either looking at ways for you to get, process, and use all of the good information that’s out there in the world, or by using today’s Web and communication technologies to spread your thoughts to other people in the world, even if it’s hard to do that.
I don’t do this for businesses or organizations. I do this for you. If you’re a living breathing person with an independent mind who likes to think for yourself (and who despises being manipulated by other people), then I hope you’re reading.
And I’m doing it for me, too. I’m my own case study, working on esteem and self-actualization. It’s a fact. Aren’t we all trying to do this in some way?
That’s all for today; I trust this didn’t take too long.
Did you need to read this?
P.S. Sorry if the blog hasn’t been available during the past day or so must have been the Digg front page, not. Things should be fine now.
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