Mountains Of Content
Ink2Quill February 2021 Editorial
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We live in interesting times of change and tumult. Epidemics are no longer concentrated to the hotter less prosperous parts of the world, our definition of currency is being tested and remodeled and, and, and new sources of energy available to industry and the masses are birthing into the markets. These new sources of energy will propel a kind of change that will do no less than take humanity into orbit and beyond.

One area of change is to the more efficient digital world from the paper one. The analog world has been replaced and that means many things. No longer does one need a library of paper that will take up an entire room. Large houses with paper libraries have been replaced by smaller rooms called studies whose contents are contained in a single magazine sized computer and with much more content. As a matter of fact, mountains more of content. Most of my books, articles and even art are now digital in a cloud or hard drive.

Don´t get me wrong. I still love paper books and paper graphic novels but I also enjoy the digital. You can say that I have settled for digital products, audio books, words on tablets, video comics even and I don´t feel like I´ve lost out in the exchange.

What to do with the mountain of content we now find ourselves with? Such a deluge can surely have someone rethink how they will spend their time. You would think it would have someone prioritize the hours in their day, their free time after all responsibilities have been taken care of. I spent last weekend on a watching marathon of a streaming show that got progressively worse. The writers started with a good idea but could not keep things together. They gradually lost their motivation somehow and after the second season I felt like I´d been cheated out of my weekend. I also felt bad for recommending it to others as it sucked away their weekends too.

We live in an age where there is soooo much content the most reliable gage of what is worth watching outside of our hunches are word of mouth. Critics are too often wrong or bought to be reliable. With the exception of one show, which I mentioned above, everything I´ve watched in the past year has been suggestions from people I know and trust. And I have not been disappointed for the most part. Don´t get me wrong. There are so many bloggers, vloggers, content creators that have great videos, but for the most part, most can´t beat the track record of word of mouth. There´s something to it and I can´t explain it.

There is more great content than anyone has the time to consume so forget the AI suggestions from your computer, watch your favorite vloggers but don´t take their suggestions for content too seriously. Your default should always be your word-of-mouth network.

Trust me or you will find yourself wasting many hours away on shows that will make you feel like a defeated gambler who did not walk away from the table when they should have.

And don´t spend too much time in front of the screen either. Anything more than two hours a day in front of the screen is waaayyyyyy too much time spent, not when we have so many beautiful places to visit and so many interesting people in our lives to see.

John

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