{"id":44,"date":"2006-11-15T12:37:55","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T12:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.neolefty.org\/wordpress\/?p=44"},"modified":"2006-11-15T12:37:55","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T12:37:55","slug":"the-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/15\/the-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Producers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I felt moved to lay off of reading news online, which I mainly get from <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/\">Slashdot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/\">Reddit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technocrat.org\/\">Technocrat<\/a>, and a slew of technical sites, <b>for a month<\/b>.  I&#8217;m just spending too much of my time <i>reading<\/i>, and <i>absorbing<\/i>, and not enough time <i>producing<\/i> and <i>making<\/i> stuff.<br \/>\nI did it (stopped surfing news sites) for a day a few times, and it made for a very different day each time.  In some cases I actually got a lot done.  And I&#8217;ve tried limiting the time I spend on the sites to, say, an hour or less, using a little kitchen timer to mark out half-hour blocks, but once I get started, it&#8217;s hard to stop.  Basically, I&#8217;m having trouble finding a point of moderation, where I read a little and work a lot.<br \/>\nSo a whole month, to try to clean out my system and be able to start over, with the goal of moderation.  So far I&#8217;m on my second day.  When I have the urge to do something other than my top priorities at work (which can be pretty tedious stuff), I either find something less tedious that may not be as urgent, or say, blog a little.<br \/>\nI remember an American pilgrim&#8217;s account of <a href=\"http:\/\/info.bahai.org\/article-1-3-4-3.html\">&#8216;Abdu&#8217;l-Baha&#8217;s daily life<\/a>, in particular that He was constantly busy taking care of everyone&#8217;s needs, from ministering to the poor in Akka, to handling correspondence from Baha&#8217;is all over the world, and that He would find relief simply in variety, because he never seemed to rest or have any idle time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I felt moved to lay off of reading news online, which I mainly get from Slashdot, Reddit, Technocrat, and a slew of technical sites, for a month. I&#8217;m just spending too much of my time reading, and absorbing, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/15\/the-producers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neolefty.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}