I suffer from a nagging, constant twitch to check the latest tech headlines.
On good mornings, I have time to read my RSS feeds. Most mornings, however, are not good.
But wherefore the urgency? [...] it’s the knowledge and skills one can’t glean from a news feed or a speedy Googling that make or break us.
Can you Google it? This is a useful barometer, a differentiator between things to reference versus concepts to know.
And thus my strategy:
- dimming down the details a bit;
- employing just-in-time Googling;
- pruning my news sources;
- and allotting time for longer-term study of deeper topics that matter.
We are not going to know all of the things, nor are we going to know them immediately.