Earlier tonight I was reading this book review in the Economist - Spoiled by Choice, the Perils and Politics of Prosperity - and I made a decision to collect unite all my recent efforts to enter into a simplistic and intensive way of life. Not much about it, it meant an idea as simple as to stick to the useful things at hand, stop expanding and the hunt for new or more exciting stuff.
I spent almost a whole afternoon sorting my Google Reader items - deleting more than a hundred subscriptions - 2/3 of the original - and putting them under Essentials I/II, Big Fish, Culture, IT, China Blogs, Law, English Reading and My Stuff nine categories. After a good part of a year, my GR is finally readable again!
I will not go out hunting for new stuff. I am just not much of a multi-tasker. I will have to focus on a few immutable content to yield anything desirable. The same is to be applied to Douban. It will remain my sketch book and place for self-talk. No "new neighbors" will be added during the course of the next several months.
Other things vary, but the basic idea will not change. Keep it simple and stupid. For as a comment goes under the article:
As JS Bach noted: a warm fire, a comfortable chair, a cup of coffee and a tobacco pipe."
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