One Night Stand has been a problem with me since childhood.
Ok, now opening the connection: Each night I spend with a different interest, a new hobby, (that lasts just a night and so One-Night-Stand) a new passion. These flicks may extend till 2-3 weeks or so but in the end they are just like having a night spent with each. In conclusion, I know a bit about everything, but not a "lot" about anything.
Clearing up things more now, I have never been able to stick to a thing for long.
I can create a timeline for things that I have had awesome nights with but that would be like blowing my own
trumpets :P
Just a brief picture here: I spend nights with APIs, I spend nights with OSs, I gobble down techie tutorials, I love modding; add to the list reading random just out of anything stuff. My recent blogs portray this only. The result : An overloaded mind. A cloud of randomness in here.
The huge pool of information available at the press of a button makes life difficult for a young mind like me, hungry for knowledge. Information is widespread, it overloads, it kills. Every other day I consume loads and loads of information generated by others in the form of newsfeeds, blogs, random tutorials, articles, videos, podcasts etc. Add to that the new web2.0 websites with cool stuff.
Here is how information is processed within me (AFAIK)
A single query in the mind translates to a google search which might lead me to a web-article. Suppose its a wikipedia article. As I move on with that article, I encounter some techie word that results in another OHT (Over Head Transmission). Thanks to firefox, I can open up another wikipedia article in another tab.
Similar things happen while checking your mailbox. Here I see an awesome newsletter. I must read it and know it. An in-built feature of my brain (perhaps some coreutil) prompts me to open that info link in another tab. And now I have around 30 tabs open, bubbling with information.
Curiosity presses the switch, the search engine turns on the bulb. There is light everywhere, but fails to remove the darkness of the hollows inside.
Each day innumerable innovations are taking place. Information is generated at a huge rate. So much unprocessed information makes you go crazy. You realize at the end of it that you have read loads of it. Even tried out a few things, a few APIs and a few web2.0 apps. But you gain nothing. Or perhaps a crammed up head. It feels like you are a squirrel running from here and there between various trees of knowledge with no fruitful outcome.
I can never imagine how a tech-freak like me can ever cope up with such levels of information.
The only cure that I can see for my one-night stands is to continue till I find a perfect night that can lead me to my interest.
Blogging is the only medium I feel that can clear my head of all the awesome stuff of the huge web.
Good factors about it is:
1) I get to know loads
2) I get to know loads
3) I get to know loads
4) Exploring myself on what I want :?:?:?:
From another stand-point I see that perhaps I should limit my interests. I need not be the Mr.Know-it-all. The world is not resting on my shoulders. This is an era of super-specialisation.
Boyo! nice post. Umm.. just to have my two cents on it, I think it's ok to be jack of all trades. You are gaining width.
ReplyDeleteI would have said "it's ok to be jack of all trades and master of none", but that it is quite clearly not the case. You're doing enough specialization for what you need, if not more. Plus what all this width adds to you is knowledge of the field(s) that you eventually want to get into. It'll be harder for someone who's not had the taste of oranges, cherries, guavas, mangoes and grapes to pick and say "I love mangoes the most, and that is what I shall eat for the rest of my life." But you, Angad, will have a taste of most, if not all, of them and say with at least some added confidence that you wanna have bananas for the rest of your life (pun intended). haha.
Jokes apart, don't think so much. Let your creativity loose and EXPLORIO!