Comments on: “human attention does not obey moore’s law”

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:23:35 +0000

Brilliant rant. I often wonder how organizations will react toward this heavy wool coat that all of their members seem to wear. It is 100 degrees out and people are starting to fold from the heat… Mission statement: more layers! =)

By: eSearing

eSearing — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:23:01 +0000

Your bottleneck is my (and others) opportunity.
It is also perhaps a time to let go of any non-productive time or gain team members to manage it. Also a time to raise rates to deter those who would infringe on your time.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:00:19 +0000

Whenever I see so much exasperation at being busy, I feel terrible. Sometime ago, I opted for a job instead of a career. Trust me, it’s infinitely better to be engaged and busy and at times overwhelmed than punching a clock. I now have to dig out of my current situation and build a whole new career if I want to be engaged again. And, with a child, it’s pretty challenging. Savor your hectic schedules and just take time to breath once in a while, your projects will get done.

By: Jus

Jus — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:15:21 +0000

Hi Hugh,
I’ve not long finished reading Tim’s book too and I found a resonance in your post and something Tim says about being the bottleneck in the system. We live in networked times but we are all still trying to behave in a “hub & spoke” way and feeling the stress.
It’s interesting how we take certain metaphors and only apply parts of them, such as “conversation”… When did you last enjoy a Guiness in a pub while having three conversation with twelve people simultaneously? Are we trapped in the metaphor perhaps, as we have been for so long on the web with the “page” metaphor.
I think guys like your good self need to be ruthless and decide if your just filters and distillers, taking in huge volumes of input and condensing it down to a concise statement or are you going to be effective, effective communicators, effective thinkers, effective doer’s? Let the network automate the filtering.
All the best,
Justin.

By: K

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:36:05 +0000

Oh, Hugh, you’re speaking to my soul here.
On the weekend, I had to take a serious look
at all the projects I was working on
and cut some of the non-core
(reading GapingVoid made the cut).
I often wonder how people have time to watch tv
when there is so much out there
needing to be built
and to be done.
If you have time to think about it
(which you don’t),
its a great place to be,
thinking that the world is full
of so much opportunity.