Slowing down, speeding up

January 16, 2009 Random No Comments

Happy 2009.

With moving house (we’re now in and decorating) and a hectic run up to Christmas a  lot of things have slipped off the radar, in some ways this in itself has been enlightening, not everything I had listed as essential really was, and just being able to drop everything and go out with my camera on a fantastically Frosty January morning and having the time to look not just snap was immensely rewarding.

There have been two posts so far this year which have caught my attention.
http://personalmba.com/olivier-rolands-crazy-side-project/ This post renewed my learning appetite which well, hadn’t been dwindling, it was more being overwhelmed and was unsure about what to learn next!  Whilst this isn’t what it says it led me to think, ‘well if I just get on with it and learn faster I can still learn everything I want to!’ I had been spending a month (ahem… ish!) on each book (even after reading 10 days to faster reading!) a week on each is pretty impressive.  But i’m easily side tracked and with so many ‘new’ things happening everyday, but what I have come to appreciate is that I don’t need to know the intracacies of how and why in all these cases! the fact I know it exists is enough, if at some point in the future I need (or want) to know more then I can look in depth.  I still want to skim a lot as its difficult to search for something when you don’t know what it is (searching – with intent as opposed to discovering by accident).

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/work-on-stuff-that-matters-fir.html I need to do more stuff that matters to me, which is really what I meant in the opening paragraph.  Again, I’m reading my own interpretation of Tim’s words.

It’s amazing when you read and discuss, news, blogs whatever… how much is subject to interpretation and the views and perceptions of the reader, I mean as well your subject to the preconceptions of the writer as well as your own.  Even at this ‘first hand’ stage of reading his direct words this is my interpretation of it and what it means to me… Imaging if it was a story passed down over generations and subject to several translations into different languages, what would you end up with?