What was the riskiest thing you've ever done?
Left home late to catch a flight?
Or invested in shares, not mutual funds?
You're living totally in your Comfort Zone.
So why is it a trap?
Because it doesn't give you the space to try new things
You'll find it applies to the smallest behaviors.
Walk into a 2 day seminar
On day 1, you look for a place to sit. Then it becomes 'Your' place.
It's very hard to change from there during the next sessions
People get offended when others sit on 'Their' seats.
So what's the way out of it?
Expand your Zone. Consciously change your patterns.
Don't wake up and start scrolling through your screen
Shift from the favourite chair you always sit on
Now extend it to your work routine.
Do you explore new options in the programs you work with everyday?
Or stick to what you know for sure?
When the little things add up, they become hard edged.
They are so small and trivial, you don't even notice them.
Did you try something new today? Yesterday? Last week?
The room for making changes gets smaller and smaller
How are you going to make big ones?
RSS explores rebirth
How will you know when your favourite websites publish something new?
That question was answered over over two decades ago
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) was the technology.
But things got complex really fast when content creation snowballed
The idea never went away. Now it's back as an experiment.
Let's say you don't want to wade through YouTube's dizzying menu options
Or scroll endlessly to find out what's new from your favorite Instagrammers
Or the millions of tweets on Twitter just to find the ones you really want to hear from.
Get the idea?
You don't want the big names to determine what you should watch.
Let's say you discover a great song on SoundCloud by chance.
Or a gamer whose gameplay you like on Twitch
How will you know when they do something new?
That's the whole point of RSS feeds. Figure out an RSS reader you like
You can download Feedly. Or the one of your choice.
And create your own personal digital stream of interests.
Chosen by you. Not an algorithm
Nobody can snoop on you. Or make judgments.
Sometimes a great idea pops out of nowhere. This is one I'm hoping will catch on.
It's really up to you.
Here’s the site trying to give RSS a fresh perspective
The slow motion life
You've seen those high-speed videos where time freezes?
We're living in that world right now.
What took an instant now stretches endlessly.
The bullet shot at a million frames per second makes a leisurely exit from the barrel
The puff of fire dances around the exit before it vanishes as smoke.
The second hand of the clock is now the hour hand.
A drop of water falling from the tap takes forever to hit the sink.
The hundred meter dash becomes the marathon.
We're seeing things we've never noticed before.
The ways shadows travel through the day inside rooms.
Money zips through virtual channels but takes ages to arrive.
Careers are buffering
Ships sail into ports that recede like the horizon.
You miss being stuck in traffic.
Home has become the office. The coffee shop. The movie theater. The beach. The restaurant. The resort. The getaway. The mountains. The retail store. The mall. If you're lucky.
If not, the hospital.
We're lab rats in a global experiment.
Nature's not letting us out in a hurry.
Not until we've learned some pretty consequential lessons.
She reached into our lives and turned down the speed dial.
Just when we had assumed we were unstoppable.
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