signal v. noise in the workplace

One of the great things about my job is that I am able to spend a lot of time reading about and researching new tech opportunities for our office.  The only downside to this is that there is a ton of noise out there — from fledgling startups to seemingly important blog posts to Twitter action that’s interesting, but not necessarily relevant to my work.

It’s gotten to be so much that I’ve been keeping NetNewsWire closed during the day so that I’m not continually distracted by new items from my feeds.  I have become more reliant on to-do lists to get things done, something I didn’t necessarily need to do in the past.  I’m constantly trying to invent new strategies to navigate all of new material coming in my direction.

Information and opportunity on the Internet are expanding at such an amazing rate — how will the modern workplace of my generation respond?