Stephen Schenkenberg

"I feel like I’m about two or three months away from unplugging in a pretty big way… I just feel like, depending on how many inputs you’ve set up for yourself — how many feeds do you follow in your RSS reader? How many people do you follow on Twitter? How many sites do you check every day? I mean, you add all that stuff up, and then you add up how much free time you have during the day, and there is a breaking point. And I’ve kind of reached it. I’ve probably been at it for about six months, maybe even a year now, to where, every time I turn any sort of screen on, I’ve got eight hours worth of stuff to do, if I feel like it. And not only is that too much information, but it also kind of gives you the feeling that you don’t need to do any creating. It just creates this feeling in me like, Why do I need to add to the information overflow stream that is occurring in the world? Unless I have something really important to say, why am I even thinking of adding to it? Why am I writing this thing on Twitter that I’m writing? It really is not that interesting. Why am I writing this half-baked blog post that other people know a lot more about? When you aren’t surrounded by so much information, and so many inputs, so many muses, I feel like your brain is actually more creative. I don’t know how to solve this problem yet, but I think there’s going to be a lot of money made by somebody who creates the filter that lets you say, ‘I really just want to read five stories today — now tell me what those stories are.’"