May 31, 2004

so here I am reading all about amphetadesk, and it finally dawns on me that

#1 - blogging is possibly more damaging to my productivity than any desktop messaging client could ever be.

#2 - I am falling for this whole, get more information than everyone and publicize it trap.

#3 - somehow this idea that I need to set something up to read the news that I don't have time to read and then report back to me ties into a couple of post- 20th century problems to do with the speed and the relative importance of information, which ties into information and the capability of getting your hands on information as currency.

It makes me uncomfortable I might have to stop doing this, I never want to feel like my smarts are meant for public consumption/ tied into an exercise in aquisition.

ps: I know what movie we are going to see.

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