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Tell us, basically, how you work. What tools do you use to make yourself more effective, more productive … how you both are consuming information and how you are creating information?
My basic task every week is to write one column. The way that that works is I read everything that’s going on in the tech industry. I use a lot of tools. I use the common ones. I visit a lot of websites. I use some aggregators that follow tech news, like this site called Techmeme, which boils down everything that’s going on in the tech industry to a few headlines. The most important way that I come upon news stories these days is Twitter. I’m just constantly following Twitter, finding news and reading it and linking it out and sharing. It’s like the Newswire in a way. Like people in finance, I think, look at Bloomberg and I look at Twitter.
Being on Twitter, it’s not procrastinating?
I wonder about that. It’s both, and it certainly occupies a lot of my time. Hours and hours. The amount of time I spend on Twitter way dwarfs the amount of time I spend writing a column. I have come upon news stories … important column ideas from Twitter — like connections on Twitter — and probably one of the reasons that I’ve gotten my last several jobs is because of a networking effect that has created. I would say it’s been hugely important to what I do on a day-to-day basis and my career at large. It’s also often a waste of time.
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