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All You Need Is 15 Minutes of Strategic Internet Browsing
Using a Timer and a Notion sheet changed the way I consume information.
Most people believe that if they read something, they know it. I was most people until I realised that couldn’t be further from the truth. I used to spend hours on the internet, consuming articles, videos, books, and more. Unsurprisingly, all that did was leave me feeling saturated and overwhelmed. I left each day with a false sense of accomplishment and no real knowledge.
Ironically, I spent every day looking for these helpful articles, tools and techniques. But when I actually worked on projects where I could use this help, I could never find these resources.
To make it all worse, I’m also easily curious. And by that I mean, I don’t have black and white boundaries to my interests. I like knowing about, well, everything. And while that comes as a handy tool to me as a designer, I often found myself getting into the deep rabbit hole called the internet. I spent countless minutes aimlessly reading anything and everything that showed up on my different newsfeeds.
Here’s the problem with this haphazard and aimless approach:
