{"id":941,"date":"2006-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=941"},"modified":"2006-10-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"giving-up-blogging-and-getting-things-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/giving-up-blogging-and-getting-things-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving up blogging and getting things done"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back I read Andrew’s’<\/a> post Fighting Addiction<\/a> about spending too much time reading his feeds and working outside school hours and it has been nagging at my brain for a long time.
I don’t blog or read other blogs in school time I mostly do it from home. Same goes for most of the development of the school website; writing the html setting up blogs etc. I spend a lot of my free time in front of my mac, no one asked me to, but that is how my life has developed.
Some of it is spent on non educational things, I do a bit of web-development and even used to write simple shareware and freeware<\/a> (ok that was educational).
For a while I though blogging might develop my career but that has not happened.So I have started paying attention to how much time this eats up and it is a lot. On a free day (weekend, holiday) I get up early, email, feeds, follow links, comment, follow links, write a post, check a few class blogs and try and comment, email again, write a post, check feeds and so on and so on. It is always interesting, but it is unproductive and pays no bills.<\/p>\n

So I am starting to think this blogging is getting in the way of <\/p>\n

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  1. Real life<\/li>\n
  2. Other parts of my computer-life I enjoy and occasionally makes a wee bit of money (Web-dev, not shareware)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So I’ve started to analyse what is taking up all the time, what can I give up to free up time for fun and profit<\/em>. Time sucks:<\/p>\n