How to bring order to your information space

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

A huge amount of information garbage that falls on our head every day threatens to fill us up and deprive us of our normal perception of reality. You yourself do not notice how you become angry, irritable, and waste time on some empty and unconstructive things. And that means it's time to put things in order in your information space.

Social network

We start by cleaning up friends. Personally, I am not going to give up social networks: they have enough interesting and useful tools and communication opportunities for me. But it is necessary to put things in order. We remove friends who are “noisy”: they throw out a lot of non-constructive negativity, “learn to live” or annoy them with invitations to groups, communities, online games. We also remove random acquaintances and subscribers with whom you have not communicated for more than a year and who, for no reason at all, are still “with you” on the social network.

You don't have to keep these people with you. Their worldview is not yours. Their opinion is not important. Your time that you spent distracted by them is valuable.

Blogs

There was a time when political, scandalous and intensely social blogs were read by everyone: it was “in trend”. Do you still need people who pour water and give ratings to everyone except yourself? Why are you reading this?

Leave only the blogs that really interest you.

Being interested in something outside of your professional field is very conducive to your growth. But don't accumulate a lot of "junk" or "trendy" subscriptions.

Tv

I don't know what TV channels you watch and why you are doing this. I left National Geographic, Viasat Nature, Viasat History, NatGeo Wild, DeutscheWelle and A-One (I love rock music, what can I do:)). My advice: Replace TV with video podcasts, TED talks, iTunes U audio lectures, Coursera courses, or interesting podcasts.

Terrestrial television in the CIS has long exhausted itself, cable and satellite are getting close to the same mark beyond good and evil, both in the quality of software products, and in that emotional and intellectual message (or rather, its absence), which is on their air. Don't throw away your TV if you have one: good movies and conference broadcasts look much better on the big screen than on a tablet.

Radio

Does FM radio still exist?:) From online radio stations, leave the music to which you work well, relax, I think. News - optional. Avoid domestic radio stations even on the Internet: advertising on them and the chatter of narrow-minded people who for some reason are called DJs frustrate and distract.

Other miscellaneous

The rule is simple: boring books, strange TV shows, incomprehensible films, confused, arrogant and dumb people - into another reality, not yours. Do not regret and do not regret: informational and emotional load in the form of random, "non-your" media, people, events, books, websites, drags you to the bottom - why? You don't owe them anything.

Keep your information space clean and constructive. This is good for yourself and for those who communicate and work with you. I hope my little tips are helpful to you.