In 1992, a fellow student called Usenet the 'ultimate procrastination device'. The Internet provides access to an inexhaustible supply of people, topics and tho

In 1992, a fellow student called Usenet the 'ultimate procrastination device'. The Internet provides access to an inexhaustible supply of people, topics and thoughts (some interesting, others less so). This is still the case, except that the number of access methods and filters have increased, and many of them are with us everywhere, all the time. Our own time is indeed finite, and my experience has been that the digital world will consume as much of that limited time as you let it. Awareness is a first step, and a purposeful approach to consuming content helps keep your content consuming time balanced with, well, all the other stuff you can do in this world.