I started to read this article about Timothy Ferriss, author of The four hour work week, with a hope that it would teach me about unplugging from technology to make me a more productive person, both personally and professionally.
What I ended up with was a bitter taste in my mouth.
Ferriss doesn't unplug from technology. He pays someone else to plug in for him.
Maybe he doesn't use MySpace or Ning or Twitter, but he still receives correspondence electronically. Only he has personal assistants who sift through his messages and only send him the important ones.
I don't know why this article bugs me so much, but it does. I think it's because it makes technology out to be the enemy.
Technology is not, in my opinion, the enemy. We allow ourselves (myself included) to get overloaded by the presentation of too much information. And maybe this is the point that the article was trying to make: be selective with what information you allow into your world. But I thought it missed the mark.
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