I have hundreds of “Read It Later” items that I saved to… read later. I have close to a thousand emails from various places I’ve signed up online. Not to mention ten of thousands RSS posts in my Google Reader inbox. Everyday, I would open these up and start to read. For about 10 minutes, I actually read. But after that, somehow unconsciously, my brain just thinks “holly shmucks. There are thousands to read.” And instead of actually reading the content, I start to skim, skip, save it for later. Instead of reading and learning from what I read, my task becomes cleaning out/”mark as read” my reading inboxes. Very different things.
After about an hour of not reading but cleaning out, I can barely remember what I read. Because I really didn’t read anything. Sometimes A lot of times, I saved for later the items that I had already saved for later. I lost track of what I was reading. And that’s not good. If I can’t remember what I read in the last hour, I haven’t read at all.
So I decided not to read the stuff in my inboxes anymore. For a while. Let them accumulate. When I really have time (and we know what this means 
, never) I will read them. Instead, I’m focusing on books. Most of stuff in the inboxes are just regurgitation of what’s already in books, anyway! And it’s working out better for me.
. She’s now married and about to have a baby!
