Comments on: My 4 Hour Work Week Journey: Low Information Diet http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/2008/07/my-4-hour-work-week-journey-low-information-diet/ African's personal development blog Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:44:15 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mwangi http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/2008/07/my-4-hour-work-week-journey-low-information-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-3254 Mwangi Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:47:09 +0000 http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/?p=667#comment-3254 @Pink M: Hmm, you know for most of my life in Nairobi whenever I discussed politics with my peers, it was jokes e.g. making fun of the politicians etc etc, but now that am an adult, as I look at the conversations I am having with my peers, I realize that they have taken a much more serious tone, and that tribalism has actually entered my peers. So, politics is many things, but entertainment at this stage it appears its not. The book talks about that fact that once you have free time and stop creating minutiae and work to fill your time, there is a void and he talks about his ideas for how to fill that, so its a pretty complete book. Chose one of the podcasts, they are usually less than 20 mb in size and listen to the guy. His level of empiricism is what drew me to actually buying the book beyond the hype. @Pink M: Hmm, you know for most of my life in Nairobi whenever I discussed politics with my peers, it was jokes e.g. making fun of the politicians etc etc, but now that am an adult, as I look at the conversations I am having with my peers, I realize that they have taken a much more serious tone, and that tribalism has actually entered my peers. So, politics is many things, but entertainment at this stage it appears its not.
The book talks about that fact that once you have free time and stop creating minutiae and work to fill your time, there is a void and he talks about his ideas for how to fill that, so its a pretty complete book. Chose one of the podcasts, they are usually less than 20 mb in size and listen to the guy. His level of empiricism is what drew me to actually buying the book beyond the hype.

]]> By: Pink M http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/2008/07/my-4-hour-work-week-journey-low-information-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-3253 Pink M Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:34:40 +0000 http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/?p=667#comment-3253 I hear you Mwangi. May be I should read the book and get to understand, who knows I might become a convert, but then what do I do with all those free hours? :) Could you may be classify the story session you had yesterday as entertainment may be? Like my watching US presidential campaigns? I hear you Mwangi. May be I should read the book and get to understand, who knows I might become a convert, but then what do I do with all those free hours? :)

Could you may be classify the story session you had yesterday as entertainment may be? Like my watching US presidential campaigns?

]]> By: Evan http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/2008/07/my-4-hour-work-week-journey-low-information-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-3251 Evan Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:40:20 +0000 http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/?p=667#comment-3251 Big question Mwangi, I do think history can give us a starting point for analysing the present and so a place to begin explore changing it. It's only a starting point though. As Kurt Lewin said: if you want to know how the system operates, try and change it. Big question Mwangi,

I do think history can give us a starting point for analysing the present and so a place to begin explore changing it. It’s only a starting point though. As Kurt Lewin said: if you want to know how the system operates, try and change it.

]]> By: Mwangi http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/2008/07/my-4-hour-work-week-journey-low-information-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-3252 Mwangi Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:22:38 +0000 http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/?p=667#comment-3252 @Pink M: Nah that's fine. Until a project like this succeeds the most I can hope for is folks to just support me because of the previous work of the tDA not because of the journey itself. Hmmm, I hope I have been putting enough text out that you can follow along. I never ever envisioned an office job. The only reason I ever started trying to make money was so that I would have enough money to hold my back so I can do other things that I want to do with my life i.e. I never ever wanted to exist in the 40 hour, hours for income model, hence the ideas of the 4 hour work week made sense, and I was working towards them, long before I ever read the book. I think your approach to information consumption is probably one of the better midpoints when compared to the news overload we Westernized folks are used to: reading journals relevant to your goals in the work place. As an example, yesterday I sat for hours and listened as a man explained to me the history of Kenya and how the British handed over to Kenyatta who continued stealing and on and on and on until today. I was fascinated, captivated, compelled, but when it was all said and done, we picked up our stuff went home and the problems of Kenya were still the problems of Kenya, which begs the question, "Was the conversation neccesary to achieving any progress?" @Pink M: Nah that’s fine. Until a project like this succeeds the most I can hope for is folks to just support me because of the previous work of the tDA not because of the journey itself. Hmmm, I hope I have been putting enough text out that you can follow along.
I never ever envisioned an office job. The only reason I ever started trying to make money was so that I would have enough money to hold my back so I can do other things that I want to do with my life i.e. I never ever wanted to exist in the 40 hour, hours for income model, hence the ideas of the 4 hour work week made sense, and I was working towards them, long before I ever read the book.
I think your approach to information consumption is probably one of the better midpoints when compared to the news overload we Westernized folks are used to: reading journals relevant to your goals in the work place.
As an example, yesterday I sat for hours and listened as a man explained to me the history of Kenya and how the British handed over to Kenyatta who continued stealing and on and on and on until today. I was fascinated, captivated, compelled, but when it was all said and done, we picked up our stuff went home and the problems of Kenya were still the problems of Kenya, which begs the question, “Was the conversation neccesary to achieving any progress?”

]]> By: Pink M http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/2008/07/my-4-hour-work-week-journey-low-information-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-3244 Pink M Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:01:07 +0000 http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/?p=667#comment-3244 Can I just admit that I'm kinda lost about this 4 hour week concept. Two reasons, one, slow internet, so i've missed all the podcasts, and the second, I'm a classic 40+ hour week worker and I like it that way, at least till I'm about 38-40 years. I don't know why, but a 4 hour work week doesn't appeal to me. May be it's cos of my orientation, or I like the pressure. About news, I rarely get news (I'm in the office most of the time), but will religiously read the business sections of the dailies, cos this directly impacts my work. Otherwise, no politics, no flood stories. Can I just admit that I’m kinda lost about this 4 hour week concept. Two reasons, one, slow internet, so i’ve missed all the podcasts, and the second, I’m a classic 40+ hour week worker and I like it that way, at least till I’m about 38-40 years. I don’t know why, but a 4 hour work week doesn’t appeal to me. May be it’s cos of my orientation, or I like the pressure.

About news, I rarely get news (I’m in the office most of the time), but will religiously read the business sections of the dailies, cos this directly impacts my work. Otherwise, no politics, no flood stories.

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]]> By: Mwangi http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/2008/07/my-4-hour-work-week-journey-low-information-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-3249 Mwangi Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:20:42 +0000 http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/?p=667#comment-3249 @Evan: And that's another very important piece to all of this, the level of superficiality, especially when it comes to television reporting. How many times do we need to hear the story, "The way we are portrayed in the media is so inaccurate. We are only portrayed as X when we also have qualities Y and Z........" I am also slowly weaning myself off of blogs because I was spending way too much time on them. @Evan: And that’s another very important piece to all of this, the level of superficiality, especially when it comes to television reporting. How many times do we need to hear the story, “The way we are portrayed in the media is so inaccurate. We are only portrayed as X when we also have qualities Y and Z……..”
I am also slowly weaning myself off of blogs because I was spending way too much time on them.

]]> By: Evan http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/2008/07/my-4-hour-work-week-journey-low-information-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-3243 Evan Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:30:56 +0000 http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/?p=667#comment-3243 Hi Mwangi, I don't bother watching the news hardly at all. I follow some stories - global warming etc but not through the mainstream media; I usually find the coverage superficial and trivial. When I do watch the news and other media it is to have stuff to talk about with other people because they watch it. My main media these days is blogs. Hi Mwangi,

I don’t bother watching the news hardly at all. I follow some stories – global warming etc but not through the mainstream media; I usually find the coverage superficial and trivial. When I do watch the news and other media it is to have stuff to talk about with other people because they watch it.

My main media these days is blogs.

]]> By: Mwangi http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/2008/07/my-4-hour-work-week-journey-low-information-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-3248 Mwangi Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:13:57 +0000 http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/?p=667#comment-3248 @Leeban: Yeah the whole mental masturbation is the perfect thing to slip into any formal or uptight situation to make it even more so ;) The problems with being an excessive consumer of information are many, as is stated in the post, but if I was to basically cut it all down to one principle: Time taken to consume information is time taken away from acting on previously acquired information, when most of the information that we currently, and previously consumed was negative, irrelevant and a waste of time anyway. @Leeban: Yeah the whole mental masturbation is the perfect thing to slip into any formal or uptight situation to make it even more so ;) The problems with being an excessive consumer of information are many, as is stated in the post, but if I was to basically cut it all down to one principle:

Time taken to consume information is time taken away from acting on previously acquired information, when most of the information that we currently, and previously consumed was negative, irrelevant and a waste of time anyway.

]]> By: Leeban http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/2008/07/my-4-hour-work-week-journey-low-information-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-3247 Leeban Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:20:50 +0000 http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/?p=667#comment-3247 "mentally masturbating" im gonna keep that one. Im kind of a newshound, i like to know whats going on in most of the world, even if i can't do shit about it. I get it online since the the tv news is worthless. What is Tims problem with excess information? “mentally masturbating” im gonna keep that one. Im kind of a newshound, i like to know whats going on in most of the world, even if i can’t do shit about it. I get it online since the the tv news is worthless. What is Tims problem with excess information?

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