Esta semana no habrá nada… -CULTIVATING SELECTIVE IGNORANCE

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

—HERBERT SIMON, recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics7 and the A.M. Turing Award, the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science"

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

—ALBERT EINSTEIN

Estoy leyendo el libro de Tim Ferris y me tiene impresionado, la semana de trabajo de 4 horas… (The 4 hour work week)… a pesar de no haberlo terminado aun, lo recomiendo ampliamente…. http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/

Esta semana estaré a dieta de información, así que no habrá post…

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

—ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating God

Go on an immediate one-week media fast. The world doesn't even hiccup, much less end, when you cut the information umbilical cord. To realize this, it's best to use the Band-Aid approach and do it quickly: a one-week media fast.

Information is too much like ice cream to do otherwise. "Oh, I'll just have a half a spoonful" is about as realistic as "I just want to jump online for a minute." Go cold turkey.

Here are the rules:

No newspapers, magazines, audiobooks, or nonmusic radio. Music is permitted at all times. No news websites whatsoever (cnn.com, drudgereport.com, msn.com, etc.). No television at all, except for one hour of pleasure viewing each evening. No reading books, except for this book and one hour of fiction9 pleasure reading prior to bed. No Web surfing at the desk unless it is necessary to complete a work task for that day. Necessary means necessary, not nice to have.

Unnecessary reading is public enemy number one during this one-week fast.