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Occasional Thoughts
I'm always thinking, and sometimes I'm even writing.
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Complexity by Jim Kast-Keat.
My friend Lori just launched the website for her concierge business, Simplicity by loribeth. She offers an array of services that will help simplify your life. She'll do your shopping, plan your events, and other things to reduce the complexity that fills up your life.Speaking for myself, my life is naturally complex. It's not intentional, but for some reason new things seem to creep up and add up, giving me too many blogs, online profiles, activities, projects, and more. This weekend is proof. I (re)discovered Foursquare and Gowalla, signed up for them both, and deleted them, all in one weekend.My life is simply complex.With the first two months of the year behind us, my Project 2010 is 1/6 complete. I have reduced my personal possessions to under 100 and I have reorganized my digital life, reducing some online profiles and arranging (and backing up) my computer files and documents.And I want to, I need to keep going. Because, as my friend Ryan reminded me the other day, simplicity wins.Most recently I have revamped my daytum site, eliminating my collection of coffee shop and sleep data, focusing it purely on water. As I mentioned above, I jumped into and pulled out of Foursquare and Gowalla. And I am continuing to rethink all the websites and groups I am a part of and contribute to. Which ones are essential? Which ones are necessary?As I continue moving my fingers in this probably disjointed rant, I want to request your help.- Of all the online things you participate in, which ones are truly essential and which ones are absolutely necessary?
- And feel free to make suggestions for me - what should I keep and what should I drop?
In case you're wondering, here's the "short" list of everything I contribute to or participate in online:- jimkastkeat.com
- Occasional Thoughts
- Project2010 (home page + details page + 100 things page)
- FourFiveSix (and blog)
- ideacus! (and blog and simply creative)
- Whatever You Do
- Writing
- Speaking
- delicious
- daytum
- flickr
- other things that I'm probably forgetting (which probably means that they are neither essential nor necessary)
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About Jim Kast-Keat
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Google reader, voice, docs, gqueues, notebook, blogger and delicious have all been huge for me in terms of personal and professional project development and staying up-to-date on things that interest me. Whatever results in more social interaction, conversation and discussion (as good as it can get online) usually trumps for me, but there are online services that allow for me to create in a way that is also off the grid and lay out my thoughts in a way that gets them out so that I can try to make sense of them, organize them, and play with them even if no one ever sees them.
These cloud services have become essential and then there are always the new things that perk my interest but lose it if there is not much activity such as my current disappointments with Wave and Buzz.