This Is Me!

And just last month I started reading them within a day or else it goes into the abyss.  

There is so much to know and learn, I understood after Max that I cannot do it in my lifetime. 

So if an article looks like it will teach me something new then I start to read them immediately or that day if not I trust my instinct (since I didn't read it immediately) and delete it. 

Probably, Oliver had a similar insight: 

If you’re stuck in a rut, and you feel like you’ve stopped making progress on things that matter, it could be that you need more immediacy in your life.

To explain what I mean, I suppose I’ll have to tell you about the other day when I deleted, or threw in the recycling, about 300 articles I’d saved to read later; roughly 70 web pages I’d bookmarked; a three-inch-high stack of supposedly vitally important printouts; plus more task lists and old project plans than I care to think about.

All gone – and at time of writing, I haven’t regretted it for a moment, because it worked.

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The most obvious problem here, of course, is that you far less frequently get around to actually reading or watching – and thus letting yourself be changed by – the ideas you encounter. But the other problem is that it generates a huge backlog to slog through – so that even if you do get around to reading or watching, you’re no longer responding from the place of aliveness and excitement that first drew you in, but from a duller sense of obligation to clear the backlog, extract the important bits, and move on to something else.