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Jeff Blankenburg
August 12, 2013
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You Have Too Much Time (60 min)
This is the expanded version of the original, given at That Conference 2013 in Wisconsin Dells, WI.
Jeff Blankenburg
August 12, 2013
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Transcript
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I was going to do a talk about procrastination, but
I never found the time to write it.
“Time is what we want most, but what we use
worst.” William Penn
“I’ve been SO busy.” “I don’t think I have enough
time.” “I’m completely slammed this week.”
What does that even mean?
“I don’t manage my time well.” “I don’t have time…for
that.” “I have other things I’d rather do.”
Where did all of our time go?
What are your favorite TV shows? 30 min 30 min
90 min 30 min 30 min 30 min 30 min 30 min 30 min 45 min How do I waste over SIX hours a week?
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How do I waste over SIX hours a week? How
did I waste 13 entire days last year?
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Source: Nielsen.com State of the Media 01.07.13 On average, this
is… 7 hours A DAY consuming media. If you consider people work 8 hours a day & sleep 8 hours a day, it’s no wonder we have no time.
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Screens are not bad.
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It’s not a time problem. It’s a priority problem.
We have too much time, so we spend it aimlessly.
We have too many ways to spend our time.
If you had to choose one, forever…
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Too much time inhibits productivity. Too many choices inhibit a
decision.
Life is a series of priorities.
What are yours?
What are your favorite TV shows?
What are your top 3 goals this year?
If you don’t have goals, what are you spending your
time doing?
WASTING IT.
Retire
Lose weight
Spend more time with my family & friends
It’s not all priorities, though. Sometimes it’s a matter of
vocabulary.
NO.
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No, I won’t watch your 3 dogs this week while
you and your new girlfriend take a trip to wine country. AGAIN.
No, I won’t build you a website for $100. I
don’t care if your nephew would do it for less.
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“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until
you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” M. Scott Peck
So what do we do with all of this time?
how to learn
why learning is important
how to stay employable
how to learn
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meet tom
tip #1 don’t be tom
learn something new every year …but I don’t have any
time!
you have time (it’s just not a priority)
remember tip #1 don’t be tom
learning takes on different forms (a history lesson)
elementary school learning (circa 1986)
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JAIL JAIL JAIL
high school learning (circa 1990)
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college learning (circa 1994)
finally, the internet was here
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today, the amount of information grows by 50% a month
kilobyte (103) megabyte (106) gigabyte (109) terabyte (1012) petabyte (1015)
exabyte (1018) zettabyte (1021) the internet is currently about 500 exabytes in 2020, it’s estimated to be 35 zettabytes
it gets worse
stuff that was current two years ago is now out
of date
the stuff you learn as a sophomore is old news
when you graduate (assuming you take four years)
you need to keep up
i don’t read tech books
i rarely read websites
those are reference material
reading != knowing
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Riding A Bicycle 101 1. Sit on the bicycle, facing
forward. 2. Pedal clockwise to provide power. 3. Rotate handlebars to turn. 4. Have fun!
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put the poor kid on a bike. let him practice.
let him fall.
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tip #2 learning comes from mistakes not memorization
i lazy load knowledge
i used to have a system
Standardized Testing
Cheat Sheets
school memorization problem solving real life memorization problem solving
today, i have a project
today, i have a project
learning only happens when you want it to
tip #3 just do it
one final thought on learning
tip #4 when in doubt, use more bacon
Jeff Blankenburg Developer Evangelist Microsoft Corporation
[email protected]
http://jeffblankenburg.com