Post by account_disabled on Mar 10, 2024 4:48:17 GMT -5
For years my legend was Francis Bacon and his motto: knowledge is power . I built my identity first and then my work on the desire to know. At university I first discovered all news channels broadcast via satellite (1994) and then the Internet. Since then my approach to information has never been the same. For years, until connecting to the internet was expensive and limiting, I read a lot of newspapers and had satellite TV always on, afternoon and evening, even for breakfast. 24ore.tv, CNN International, CNBC, RaiNews24: there was never a shortage of opportunities to immerse yourself in the flow of financial, technological and geopolitical information. With the Internet I began to explore the most hidden corners of the internet, until I discovered blogs and became an active part of the media world, with my blog Pandemia .
After a few years and the afternoons spent Canada Phone Number studying the social media phenomenon turn into a real job. The platforms multiply, smartphones arrive and the time dedicated to consuming media overlaps almost entirely with the time spent awake: in bed, at breakfast, on the train, walking, at the desk, in the hotel, with customers, until the last check before I fall asleep. Always connected, always consuming media . 4 hours a week The first insight into the fact that something needed to be revised came from reading Tim Ferris ' best seller : 4 hour work week, later translated by Cairo Publishing as 4 hours a week . Tim Ferris suggests completely eliminating media consumption , letting friends, at the table together, tell us what we really can't help but know. Revolutionary, almost heretical, at least for someone like me who lived completely immersed in the flow of information.
With the flea in my ear I began to see the world of media (and social media) with a different eye. How much of that information I was constantly drinking was noise and how much was signal that I could use? How much of that content could I transform into knowledge , to be capitalized on over time? I therefore began to ask myself how much of that flow was truly essential, necessary, useful, exploitable for personal and professional growth purposes. The first response was to reduce flows . Cutting the sources, reducing the social profiles followed, increasing the filter, but it wasn't enough. It took me some time to understand that I couldn't keep up to date with everything that was important to me, but that I had to reduce the scope of in-depth analysis.
After a few years and the afternoons spent Canada Phone Number studying the social media phenomenon turn into a real job. The platforms multiply, smartphones arrive and the time dedicated to consuming media overlaps almost entirely with the time spent awake: in bed, at breakfast, on the train, walking, at the desk, in the hotel, with customers, until the last check before I fall asleep. Always connected, always consuming media . 4 hours a week The first insight into the fact that something needed to be revised came from reading Tim Ferris ' best seller : 4 hour work week, later translated by Cairo Publishing as 4 hours a week . Tim Ferris suggests completely eliminating media consumption , letting friends, at the table together, tell us what we really can't help but know. Revolutionary, almost heretical, at least for someone like me who lived completely immersed in the flow of information.
With the flea in my ear I began to see the world of media (and social media) with a different eye. How much of that information I was constantly drinking was noise and how much was signal that I could use? How much of that content could I transform into knowledge , to be capitalized on over time? I therefore began to ask myself how much of that flow was truly essential, necessary, useful, exploitable for personal and professional growth purposes. The first response was to reduce flows . Cutting the sources, reducing the social profiles followed, increasing the filter, but it wasn't enough. It took me some time to understand that I couldn't keep up to date with everything that was important to me, but that I had to reduce the scope of in-depth analysis.