The CrazyBusy part, as I understand it, is due to the constant bombardment of garbage-in from these myriad connections (live and tech) which in turn become time/attention depleters. He gives many reasons we allow this to happen, but the end result is we lose our ability to function at maximum – or find “rhythm”. He purports there is a similarity to ADD (of which he is qualified to diagnose and has treated) and dispenses advice and exercises to increase attention span. Our goal should be to achieve what he terms “C-State” or what is elsewhere known as “Flow” – the state at which we operate/think at maximum.

This is important. Immediacy and reaction and short term thinking vs the big picture, outside the box – maximum thought. Just because we can act doesn’t mean we should. (Isn’t that from Jurassic Park?) I enjoyed the book. If you don’t hear from me soon, it’s because I am not answering my emails the second they come in and have achieved “Flow”………

 While at the beach I thought I would “stay on top of things” and bring my work laptop.  At first it seemed like a good thing to do because I could keep up with projects and my colleagues but as the week moved on it almost felt like I never left the workplace.  It was still pretty relaxing but answering emails, interviewing candidates , making calls all makes it seem like your butt is still in the seat.

Now don’t get me wrong, it is a nice luxury to not have to come back to 100+ emails etc but the price you pay is not really being able to “let go”, “let your hair down” and have that “Calgone Take Me Away Moment”.  Also, most clients and candidates appreciate the extra effort, especially when you are on PTO. 

So friend or foe?!?!  Mostly friend…or may be foe….heck I don’t know.

1. If I teach my avatar to fold laundry, load or unload the dishwasher????- could it happen?  (I wish!)

I am truly amazed at how far technology has come.  To think that my first cell phone was the size of a briefcase, had a cord and big antenna.  Now they are small enough to hide in a pocket.  Do you ever wonder what technology will offer in 10 years from now?  20 years from now?  Will it ever be like the Jetson’s?

Will be interesting!!

…Responding to an email too quickly…

…Hitting the “Reply All” button when the message was for only one of the recipients…

Hopefully you were not talking bad about anyone!!!

Or what about when the autofill pops a name in the “To” line and then you realize you just emailed the wrong person?     OMG!

I guess the moral of this story is to check every line in our email before we hit that “Send” button as it can save us a lot of embarrassment and make sure the email is intended for the person or persons we mean to send it to…
 

I wish we had a “Retract” button that actually worked, invisibly snatching back an email.

 Now that would be genius!!!!  Microsoft, can you do better please?

I am talking about those annoying messages that pop up when you use too many asterisks in a Boolean string, develop a complex string with inurl: and more often than not when X-Raying Google for LinkedIn Profiles or any site using the site: command. You then have to prove to Google that you are indeed a part of the Homo sapiens species and decipher a CAPTCHA.   To quote one of my current most favorite writers in the search world, Glen Cathey, this has something to do with the issue of Google thinking everyone has suddenly become a malicious bot sending automated queries to their servers.
 
The nerve!! I mean don’t sit in the dark. The whole search community is up in arms over this. Folks who are the foremost authority on all things search and Boolean are talking, from Glen Cathey on Boolean Black Belt to technical wonder whiz Irina Shamaeva’s Technorati post, the blogosphere is abuzz.

Maybe all the attention is getting a bit too much for Google to handle – I think I’ll dash off a personal letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt on some non technical good ole fashioned rolled up parchment scroll so it will stand out in all the bits and bytes of code.
 
“Dear Google, I was a “Resident Alien” before I became a US Citizen but I assure you I am 100% HUMAN. No green blood, electronic nerves, mechanical motor hearts nor intent to harm. You are a premier search engine & a smart one too! What’s with the captchas? We ask for Search Engine Freedom!!!! Please release us from this bondage. You must find a way out.”

To prevent this issue you have to
(1)regularly clear your cookies (how painful is that, I’d rather loose my memory first!),
(2) switch browsers
(3) try Bing or Yahoo!
(4) or interestingly enough I just stumbled across this
(5) I am sure we will find other work arounds

This is putting a real crimp in my search style and it’s been going for a while now. Do me a favor – voice your opinions please!