I have not posted for a while, I seem to have been too busy with other things including a rather secret project called Suggler. The names not secret, just what we are doing. All will be revealed in time. I have also been attending events like Cloud Camp Auckland and talking to lots of people. Working on my business model some, and looking for opportunities. And as ever learning.
I dont think you should ever stop learning or seeking out and discussing new ideas. But some times you need to work out what you should be listening to and what you should filter out. Reading a blog entry by Seth Godin ( incoming ) I use the phrase ” The Distraction Age” which is a direct output of the silicon age and the communications age. Too much too often and still too little. We place ourselves at the mercy of the marketers and lots of well meaning people and then expect to hear every thing they have to say and still manage to do what we need to and have coherent thoughts. Its like filling our heads with foam and trying to listen the the muffled voice of our own mind.
We will soon be at a point where we need a U Shadow. An almost AI which runs as a personal assistant and filteres everything, presenting us with only those things which we actually need to respond to and act on, yet still able to pull up relevant material we will need before we need it. And it will need to be mobile and siting close to us, or in the cloud and connecting to our mobile. That way we might not be so busy being distracted and more busy doing.
Until then its up to us to keep control and be our own filtering systems.
