Taking Action

Thanks to Scott Briscoe for commenting on my last post. It helped me clarify a few points related to the importance of taking action.

And in that vein, there is a nice post on Signals v. Noise about the power of actually working offline (after you read this post, of course), so you can be more active, instead of reactive. From the post:

See, there’s an inherent problem with always being online: you’re too connected. You wind up in the role of passive observer. Things come to you. You react instead of act. You can easily spend too much time “marking things as read,” reading RSS feeds, watching YouTube clips, or whatever else.

When you go offline, that equation changes. You have to be active. Since you can’t input, you output. If you don’t do something, nothing happens.