You Have Too Much Time (60 min)

This is the expanded version of the original, given at That Conference 2013 in Wisconsin Dells, WI.

Transcript

2. I was going to do a talk about procrastination, but I never found the time to write it.
3. “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” William Penn
4. “I’ve been SO busy.” “I don’t think I have enough time.” “I’m completely slammed this week.”
5. What does that even mean?
6. “I don’t manage my time well.” “I don’t have time…for that.” “I have other things I’d rather do.”
7. Where did all of our time go?
8. 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?
10. How do I waste over SIX hours a week? How did I waste 13 entire days last year?
12. 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.
14. Screens are not bad.
21. It’s not a time problem. It’s a priority problem.
22. We have too much time, so we spend it aimlessly. We have too many ways to spend our time.
23. If you had to choose one, forever…
25. Too much time inhibits productivity. Too many choices inhibit a decision.
26. Life is a series of priorities.
27. What are yours?
28. What are your favorite TV shows?
29. What are your top 3 goals this year?
30. If you don’t have goals, what are you spending your time doing?
31. WASTING IT.
32. Retire
33. Lose weight
34. Spend more time with my family & friends
35. It’s not all priorities, though. Sometimes it’s a matter of vocabulary.
36. NO.
38. No, I won’t watch your 3 dogs this week while you and your new girlfriend take a trip to wine country. AGAIN.
39. No, I won’t build you a website for $100. I don’t care if your nephew would do it for less.
41. “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
42. So what do we do with all of this time?
43. how to learn
44. why learning is important
45. how to stay employable
46. how to learn
49. meet tom
50. tip #1 don’t be tom
51. learn something new every year …but I don’t have any time!
52. you have time (it’s just not a priority)
53. remember tip #1 don’t be tom
54. learning takes on different forms (a history lesson)
55. elementary school learning (circa 1986)
57. JAIL JAIL JAIL
58. high school learning (circa 1990)
60. college learning (circa 1994)
61. finally, the internet was here
63. today, the amount of information grows by 50% a month
64. 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
65. it gets worse
66. stuff that was current two years ago is now out of date
67. the stuff you learn as a sophomore is old news when you graduate (assuming you take four years)
68. you need to keep up
69. i don’t read tech books
70. i rarely read websites
71. those are reference material
72. reading != knowing
74. 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!
76. put the poor kid on a bike. let him practice. let him fall.
78. tip #2 learning comes from mistakes not memorization
79. i lazy load knowledge
80. i used to have a system
81. Standardized Testing
82. Cheat Sheets
83. school memorization problem solving real life memorization problem solving
84. today, i have a project
85. today, i have a project
86. learning only happens when you want it to
87. tip #3 just do it
88. one final thought on learning
89. tip #4 when in doubt, use more bacon
90. Jeff Blankenburg Developer Evangelist Microsoft Corporation jeblank@microsoft.com http://jeffblankenburg.com