I was going to do a talk
about procrastination, but I never
found the time to write it.
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“Time is what we want most,
but what we use worst.”
William Penn
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“I’ve been SO busy.”
“I don’t think I have enough time.”
“I’m completely slammed this week.”
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What does that even mean?
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“I don’t manage my time well.”
“I don’t have time…for that.”
“I have other things I’d rather do.”
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Where did all of our time go?
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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.
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We have too much time,
so we spend it aimlessly.
We have too many ways
to spend our time.
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If you had to choose one, forever…
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Too much time
inhibits productivity.
Too many choices
inhibit a decision.
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Life is a series of priorities.
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What are yours?
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What are your favorite TV shows?
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What are your top 3 goals this year?
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If you don’t have goals,
what are you spending your time doing?
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WASTING IT.
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Retire
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Lose weight
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Spend more time with
my family & friends
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It’s not all priorities, though.
Sometimes it’s a matter of vocabulary.
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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.
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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
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So what do we do with all of this time?
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how to learn
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why learning is important
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how to stay
employable
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how to learn
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meet tom
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tip #1
don’t be tom
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learn something new every year
…but I don’t have any time!
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you have time
(it’s just not a priority)
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remember tip #1
don’t be tom
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learning takes on different forms
(a history lesson)
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elementary school learning
(circa 1986)
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JAIL
JAIL
JAIL
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high school learning
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college learning
(circa 1994)
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finally, the internet was here
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today, the amount of information
grows by 50% a month
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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
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it gets worse
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stuff that was current
two years ago
is now out of date
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the stuff you learn as a sophomore
is old news when you graduate
(assuming you take four years)
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you need to keep up
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i don’t read tech books
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i rarely read websites
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those are reference material
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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
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i lazy load knowledge
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i used to have a system
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Standardized Testing
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Cheat Sheets
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school
memorization
problem solving
real life
memorization
problem solving
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today, i have a project
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today, i have a project
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learning only happens
when you want it to
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tip #3
just do it
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one final thought on learning
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tip #4
when in doubt, use more bacon
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Jeff Blankenburg
Developer Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
[email protected]
http://jeffblankenburg.com