The View From Space » 4 hour workweek http://spaceman23.com Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:43:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Media Fast http://spaceman23.com/2008/05/05/media-fast/ http://spaceman23.com/2008/05/05/media-fast/#comments Mon, 05 May 2008 16:43:00 +0000 spaceman23 http://spaceman23.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/media-fast/ I check my email maybe 1000 times a day.  It is an absent, constant checking. I don’t get a thousand emails a day, I just check so that I will know when I do get one or three.  I also browse the internet constantly, checking boingboing for weird news, checking to see if there are any new blogs up on tribe, or if someone has commented on mine. I wander aimlessly around myspace or facebook, finding nothing new. It just doesn’t work.

I am into this book right now, The Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss.
It’s incredible, all of you should read it.  One of it’s assertions  is that much of the information we consume is not essential to survival, and is more akin to gorging ourselves on junk food than getting useful data. He suggests a 5 day media fast.  Basically, no TV,  radio,  news, web, nonessential email, podcasts, audiobooks,  or nonfiction reading.  He allows 1 hour of TV per night for pleasure, and an hour of reading fiction for pleasure. But no more of the constant search for information.  I have been all about giving up my vices this year, so this immediately frightened and appealed to me.  I am stating now.
As part of this, I am also implementing checking email just twice a day, at noon and at 4pm.  Tim suggests that email, and the tiny little distractions it provides is the #1 time waster in our modern age. and suggests getting it all clumped together at one time. I am curious to see what will come of this one.  I may be setting up a simple auto response telling people this, or it just might not be necessary. I probably think that getting ahold of me via email is more important than it is.
I still will be blogging this week, and linking to tribe and facebook, but I will not be obsessively eyeballing my comments. I also will be spending this week working out my blogger interface and website. I am looking forward to having full interconnectedness between all of my internet places. I just got a youtube, a del.ici.ous, and flickr account, and I don’t know how to use them (experts in these sites, please tutor me!).  I want to place some sort of connection to my cartoon projects that is secure. I want it to look fantastic. So yeah, I have a lot of work to do.
Most importantly, this week I will not be checking tribe, or evites or anything like that. If something is going on, please call me! Connect with me in a personal way, you have my permission. If something important happens for our community or in the world, please don’t hesitate to tell me.
Spaceman signing off.
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TEN THINGS I LOVE ABOUT MY LIFE

1. I am trying some new web blogging programs. Today I am trying Wordpress (thanks everyone). I like it. I just need to figure out a way to post date posts and get all my old blog posts from tribe into this other site. I am really loving my blogging lately. It has been such an opening for me.

2. The media I have been getting into lately. It has all been so good! I am rereading Promethea and in the process relearning magick that I thought I had all figured out.  I finished BSG season 3. It was absolutely incredible! I saw Forgetting Sara Marshal last week with Alicyn and it was so much better than I expected. A friend loaned me the new series of Dr. Who. It makes me want to time travel! And then there are my podcasts and audiobooks I am listening to. Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and Tim Ferriss’ the 4-Hour Workweek have been rocking my world! I guess being freelance and unemployed does have it’s benefits.  I am really just amazed at how good everything is!

3. Despite being without work this week, I have no concerns for money. I am just not worried.  Flow.

4. Through my good friend Sammy and his wonderful girlfriend I have a connection with HBO’s experimental webfilms division. It has me really thinking what less than a minute kind of short films can I get out there?  Obviously, I am going to need some help. Who’s in? Last night, I did a list of my production resources and holey moley, I have great resources!

5. Between working out and the no sweets and booze… I am really loving my body.  Not like loving the way it looks, but treating my body like I really love it. It’s been really fantastic.

6. I love my macbook.  The other day, I got to go to the Mac Store to deal with a minor missing program that I accidently deleted. They replaced it lickity split and I ended up spending an extra $60 on a program and iphone case. I left happy. By contrast, when I called microsoft to just deal with an extra $2 charge that I wanted to get removed,  I had to deal with 2 emails, an hour of phone time, mostly made up of hold time, I talked to 4 different people, and got hung up on. The $2 issue, still not resolved.

7. Another benefit of plenty of free time is that I have been sleeping really well lately. I have these amazing dreams, full of incredible special effects, dazzling characters and spectacular scenery.

8. Birds. It’s springtime and several families of birds have taken up residence all around my house. It’s so beautiful.

9. I also have a pool. Wolfie pointed out that with a pool comes certain maintenance responsibilities. For instance, on hot days, sometimes you have to just hang out around it to make sure your responsibilities are handled. Cold drinks and music add to the quality of this maintenance.

10. Number ten is always difficult for me. Okay. Flowers. My roommate is a gardener. He has this habit of cutting fresh flowers and putting them around the house. It’s nice. It is also nice that all around my house are all these beautiful flowers this spring. It’s gorgeous.

Yeah… It’s a good life.

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