Stop Wasting Time
This is a quintessential episode in the story of my day to day life at the moment. I have feeds of articles from various sources that I check every day. I tend to read as many of them as I can, as I come across them. Those that I don't have time for I'll leave open to read later.
As I currently have some spare moments (hence a blog post!), an opportunity arises to review the articles I've stored up. And what appears as the oldest neglected article on my list? Wired's "How To", titled "Stop Wasting Time Online".
Now I'm faced with a dilemma, for the article might be a trap! If I am indeed interested in learning how to stop wasting time online, would it not be self-defeating to go back and read this article that I've blissfully done without for so long? What if the first paragraph in the article reads "Step One: stop reading these articles. Step Two: see step one"? On the other hand, perhaps if I had prioritised the article a little higher, I would have learned techniques resulting in several hours more spare time by this moment.
In any case, the fact that after almost a week I am finally getting back to an article about wasting time, stands as a sweetly ironic reflection of the schedule I keep.
By the way, I snuck a glance at the tail of the article in search of a date, and was particularly amused by the sole comment. It reads "I am going to write a how to on how to block wired out of my router. That will save time."