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Low-fat twitter, blogs and no-list

Posted: January 5th, 2009 | Filed under: Personal | 4 Comments »

Habitually, in a new year I expect big changes. People like changes, don’t they?

Today I started my own changes with removing 90% of people I follow on Twitter. I noticed that it has really no value to me to read “went off the grid” or “what a nice couple of toasts I had this morning”, but wastes precious time. Yes, I speculated on this before, so not really going to expand on this.

Removed the blogs I don’t read or don’t pay too much attention to, especially high-traffic ones. This one is quite obvious — why spend time reading something you don’t appreciate.

Made a list of things I don’t need: iPhone, iPod Touch, hardware synthesizers, new vinyl records, new books and movies, new tv series, a car (don’t have one and don’t need one), coffee. These are things over which I had an internal discussion every now and then. Now I don’t and it’s a good thing as it removed just another thing to worry.

This is just a tip of the iceberg of changes I’m planning…

4 Comments

  1. 1 909youknowit said at 19:07 on January 7th, 2009:

    My best to you. I saw you dropped me on twitter too! I guess you got tired of looking at a pot of chili I’d post :) I had always hoped to hear about more of the mundane from you on twitter – I think the everyday is what is interesting – esp. from some place I’ve never been.

  2. 2 Aleksey Gureiev said at 19:54 on January 7th, 2009:

    :) Not that I got specifically tired of someone’s messages. It’s more like I figured that I was getting 10 messages per hour that didn’t bring anything new into my life. Every now and then there will be a link that is interesting, but basically there’s just stuff people do, think, eat etc. Do you have a blog? I would be happy to follow it, and I figured that it’s the way better to go with people I know, since it’s not distracting at all. I get a cup of coffee on Sunday morning and walk through every blog I’m subscribed to (around 50). That’s fun.

    Cheers!

  3. 3 Jurgen said at 02:03 on January 13th, 2009:

    Surprised to see a coffee. But what really got me was finding vinyls in that list. Come on, Alex, that was fun! ;)

  4. 4 Aleksey Gureiev said at 09:48 on January 13th, 2009:

    It still is, and I love vinyl. As I mentioned it during after the game, I just need an itemized list of what not to buy to stop pointless speculations, and focus on something more important at the moment.

    I soon will need a car, and probably will get back to more frequent record spinning. ;)

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