On the recommendation of Brady, one of my coworkers, and one hell of a smart guy, I bought and read Tim Ferriss’ Four Hour Work Week, and was surprised to find out that the third chapter outlines the “low-information diet” that I had just written about a few days prior.
In fact, the book has actually inspired me to cut my extraneous information intake even more drastically. It’s very difficult for someone whose stock and trade is knowledge, but just the process of deciding what is useful and what is not has been elucidating.
If you’re interested, Tim has published a ChangeThis! manifesto that encapsulates most of what he’s talking about in the low-info diet chapter. You may not be able to use all of it, but definitely worth a read if you spend your day tethered to Outlook, which I’m almost willing to bet that you do.
