Mind Sprocket: The Back Page : Nine bookmarks

In this post, I briefly whine about technology, respond with bold action, and transform the situation positively:

I am overwhelmed by computers, technology, phones, and these blasted things called features. Features? As in, a prominent, crowding element so gaudy and useless you can’t look away? I use computers daily for my work, Mind Sprocket, e-mail, and general communication. You probably do too.

I have many bookmarks (or favorites) of websites that at some point I thought would be useful in the future. In fact, I have thousands of those bookmarks, nested in folders upon folders upon folders upon folders. Every day, my bookmarks rear out of the screen and yell at me to learn something new, do a tutorial, use this service, be deep, be shallow, explore somebody’s irrelevant meanderings.

Starting up my internet browser stresses me out. That’s not good!

On November 10th, in a bold tactical move, I placed my index finger on my mouse button and swiftly deleted all of my bookmarks, except for nine. I have six links to financial things and three links to the tools I use to manage Mind Sprocket. That’s it. My browser is, quite metaphorically, a clean slate.

What an enormous relief! Pressure and stress be gone! I just didn’t feel the same way about my bookmarks anymore. I met someone new: simplicity!

The challenge: delete all your bookmarks, except for a single digit number of them.