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How I am Declaring My Independence from Technology Today
via The Steve Rubel Lifestream
Brilliant!
I am simplifying my technology in five ways…- First, I am eliminating any bookmarks, software/webware that I haven’t used in the last seven days. This is an idea I picked up from my friend Jeff Sandquist at Microsoft.
- Second, I am down to two devices for everything - a laptop and a cell phone. Period, end of story. This means my Kindle is going on eBay (eBay is one of our clients).
- Third, all my critical data seamlessly syncs between these two devices. If a service doesn’t allow me to sync stuff via the cloud and access it both online and off, it’s toast. Evernote and Google (Google Reader, Gmail IMAP, CalDAV) are lifesavers here. My business data already syncs wonderfully via Exchange.
- Fourth, I dumped tons of of stuff: RSS feeds and virtually every email newsletter, with two exceptions - Marketing Charts and the Social Media Smartbrief
- Fifth, I am setting up lists on Friendfeed to help me find signals in the noise and so that I can do the same here for you, my audience