I think it is widely accepted that I have something of an addiction to the Internet. Email, blogs, twitter, IM, and so forth. I find it very hard to put them aside and ignore them. But I have come to a point where I would sort of like to break that cycle. There are two problems with that.<\/p>\n
One is that I just can\u2019t afford to ignore some of that. Most of my work information including things to do and meeting requests comes by email. Most of my training is online. If I ignore it than it rapidly becomes too much to deal with at once. So I keep up with it all the time. Could I do it less often? Yes, and to some extent I am doing that. But I can\u2019t shut it off completely.<\/p>\n
The other is that I am something of a knowledge junky. That is I am also addicted to knowing what is going on. I have found that I can be away from the news for longer periods of time so that gives me some hope that I could break free from the Internet if work didn\u2019t keep requiring connections.<\/p>\n
The real question is do I want to break the addiction. Actually the answer is yes. I just don\u2019t see a way to do it short of retirement or at the very least finding some other job. That\u2019s my story and I\u2019m sticking with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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