Comments on: A couple more days offline

By: Boundaries and Outsourcing Our Brains | Climb to the Stars

Boundaries and Outsourcing Our Brains | Climb to the Stars — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:03:36 +0000

[...] many of us, technology is closely linked to work, and learning to be offline is also learning to disconnect from work. Should we learn to be offline? Is it something we need? It seems obvious to us today, but [...]

By: the_prophet

the_prophet — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:05:44 +0000

cool stuff!

By: the_prophet

the_prophet — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:05:44 +0000

cool stuff!

By: Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) » Retour de vacances

Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth) » Retour de vacances — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:53:49 +0000

[...] photos avec TwitPic, histoire de faire saliver un peu mes amis, mais pas de façon compulsive. Comme l’a bien dit Xavier, quelque chose qui me ressemble assez peu: pas de tags, pas de notes, juste une photo et un petit [...]

By: Xavier

Xavier — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:49:27 +0000

“What I have done, though, is opened up iCal and blocked 3-5 days here every month”

This is especially good. When you feel you're too busy emptying your inbox to find the time for vacation, just put vacation in the GTD-system itself

“Completely goal-driven, get the photos online, publish fast, sort, title, tag, sets, collections…”

Couldn't agree more that this prevents you from being fully at peace. Having too many “I have to do that” might make you feel more in control, but it's a stressful way to look at pleasurable things – kinda like parents rushing their kids through Disneyland, “we have to have fun, we have to have fun!”

I was surprised to see you posting pics in Twitpic. First thought was “haha, she HAD to be at least a bit online ”, then “wow, TwitPic is so not her: not tags, no collections, no easy way to retrieve… it's vacation alright ”.
Just dumping pics here and there for the simple pleasure of showing them to friends, and not having to make sure they have all the right metadata and such associated with them, not having to make them findable absolutely… This Is Good.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:53:08 +0000

It's actually a good two hours from one place to another (not a lot by world standards, I'll admit). 3/4 days would be too much moving around for me (and the cat), I think. For the moment, I've blocked at least one extended week-end (4-5 days) per month up there. If I manage to stick to that, it'll already be way better than what I've been doing for the last year!

By: Marie-Aude

Marie-Aude — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:11:57 +0000

As it seems not to be so far away from your home, could you not make a kind of share time ? 3 days a week in a place, 4 days in the other ?
A lot of people do that around here...

By: Xavier

Xavier — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:49:27 +0000

“What I have done, though, is opened up iCal and blocked 3-5 days here every month”

This is especially good. When you feel you’re too busy emptying your inbox to find the time for vacation, just put vacation in the GTD-system itself

“Completely goal-driven, get the photos online, publish fast, sort, title, tag, sets, collections…”

Couldn’t agree more that this prevents you from being fully at peace. Having too many “I have to do that” might make you feel more in control, but it’s a stressful way to look at pleasurable things – kinda like parents rushing their kids through Disneyland, “we have to have fun, we have to have fun!”

I was surprised to see you posting pics in Twitpic. First thought was “haha, she HAD to be at least a bit online ”, then “wow, TwitPic is so not her: not tags, no collections, no easy way to retrieve… it’s vacation alright ”. Just dumping pics here and there for the simple pleasure of showing them to friends, and not having to make sure they have all the right metadata and such associated with them, not having to make them findable absolutely… This Is Good.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:53:08 +0000

It’s actually a good two hours from one place to another (not a lot by world standards, I’ll admit). 3/4 days would be too much moving around for me (and the cat), I think. For the moment, I’ve blocked at least one extended week-end (4-5 days) per month up there. If I manage to stick to that, it’ll already be way better than what I’ve been doing for the last year!

By: Marie-Aude

Marie-Aude — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:11:57 +0000

As it seems not to be so far away from your home, could you not make a kind of share time ? 3 days a week in a place, 4 days in the other ? A lot of people do that around here…