I found an article over at Write to Done called “Write Just One Thing Today, and Write It Well”. It really hit home with me, not just with writing but with doing anything.

Here’s the theory: Focusing on one particular thing, minimizes distraction and directs attention, allowing one to pour all of their energy into the completion of a task. All of the non-important stuff fades into the background, stress vanishes, mind is clear, and simplicity arrives.

This is great and all, but is it practical? Especially when juggling several things at once?

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I just learned the other day that WordPress, by default, attaches a ‘NoFollow’ tag to all homepage links added by readers in comments. This acts as a deterrent for spammers abusing a blog’s commenting features, trying to gather a bunch of inbound links to increase pagerank.

Although I do agree that spammers shouldn’t benefit from this sort of behavior, it takes away link love from the everyday reader involved in discussions.

So, I decided to install the Lucia’s Linky Love WordPress plugin and will now be allowing DoFollow on links for regular commenter’s. I may receive some additional spam related comments, but I think it’s worth the risk. Plus, I’m using the Akismet plugin so I’m not too worried.

I have also joined the No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Community in hopes of encouraging the DoFollow movement.

UPDATE: I added the following image to the comment section as a reminder of the DoFollow advantages of participating in discussion.

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I have been reading the The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss and just finished watching this video, where Tim and Marci Alboher talk about their latest books with Google employees.

I haven’t read Marci’s book One Person/Multiple Careers yet, but am really interested in her perspective on simultaneous interests. I am especially intrigued by her newly coined word ’slash’ and its impact on an individual’s lifestyle.

Being an entrepreneur and someone that becomes obsessively passionate about one thing after the other, I would consider myself to be a ’slash’, often saying I enjoy business/marketing/web development/design/photography/reading/biking/etc.

So, is being a ‘Slash’ a good thing or a bad thing?

Well, I think it depends…

Being A Non-Slash:

Being a non-slash keeps you from spreading too thin and allows you to direct your main focus and attention on one primary interest. This is how specialization came about. Specialization can be good, if the specialist is actually passionate about what they do. But what if they aren’t? What if it’s just part of going with the flow? Not Good. This is why you see people that are really good at what they do but hate it. IMHO specialization puts people in a box. Being a specialist creates an imaginary safe haven, providing a comfortable mold that they can settle into, becoming resistant to growth.

Being A ‘Slash’:

Being a ’slash’, allows you to be creative and gives you several outlets for pursuing your passions. This removes any possibility of becoming bored or feeling stuck in a rut. Their is a possibility of becoming spread too thin, but after a while familiar interests can be set to auto pilot and you can redirect your focus accordingly. I think one of the most obvious benefits of being a ’slash’, is the ability to have constant growth and joy in pursuing new passions. Passion is the key term here. The ’slash’ mentality opens up a whole new world of opportunities and adventure for you to explore.

But I don’t have enough time to pursue all of my passions?

This is where The 4-Hour Workweek and Tim’s technique’s come into play. What really fascinates me about combining Tim’s technique’s and the ’slash’ lifestyle, is you can have total freedom to experience the things you are most passionate about.

Are You A ‘Slash’?

Are you a ’slash’? If not, why? What’s holding you back? If so, how do you find time to pursue all of your passions?

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I have been using LogMeIn for quite a while now. Basically it allows me to access and control any of my computers from a remote location.

Sure comes in handy when you are away on vacation and forgot to email that document you had been working on. Or, want to show your friends some of your latest photos but haven’t uploaded them to Flickr yet.

LogMeIn is totally free and easy to use. Can be used for personal or business purposes. Nothing revolutionary but can be very convenient.

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I ran across this sweet way of using CSS3 to hide an image in your text. Take a look.

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