{"id":1747,"date":"2014-03-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2014\/03\/24\/1704\/"},"modified":"2014-03-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T23:00:00","slug":"1704","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2014\/03\/24\/1704\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Lopp: Drift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lopp \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/randsinrepose.com\/archives\/drift\/\">Drift<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee, as system thinkers, we\u2019re trying to build a model that, well, explains everything. To assist in our discovery of everything, we\u2019ve built ingenious ways of gathering data. Whether it\u2019s a feed reader, a set of bookmark tab groups, Facebook, Twitter, or a news aggregator, we\u2019ve constructed a personal machine that allows us to rapidly consume information.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] The process of consuming all this data gives my mind mental velocity, but it\u2019s not just the rate of consumption that gets me mentally limber, it\u2019s the map I\u2019m constantly building and refining. I\u2019m exercising and developing my Relevancy Engine. I\u2019m instantly evaluating everything I know and comparing this item to that impression.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026] The high volume of information consumption has forced my brain into high gear to process and analyze it. Analysis is the catalyst that opens the door to creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well put. Just the way I feel. (Related: <a href=\"\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2012\/09\/05\/1524\">How I\u2019m blogging<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lopp \u2013 Drift: \u201cSee, as system thinkers, we\u2019re trying to build a model that, well, explains everything. To assist in our discovery of everything, we\u2019ve built ingenious ways of gathering data. Whether it\u2019s a feed reader, a set of bookmark tab groups, Facebook, Twitter, or a news aggregator, we\u2019ve constructed a personal machine that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}