As we enter spring, gardeners start thinking and planning the pruning process.
From the Encyclopedia Britannica (Remember them?)
"Pruning, in horticulture, is the removal or reduction of parts of a plant, tree, or vine that are not requisite to growth or production, are no longer visually pleasing, or are injurious to the health or development of the plant"
Digital Pruning is similar being the removal of excess digital assets and channels that are out of date, unhelpful, no longer relevant and serve only to distract you from your purpose and from being productive.
I am in the inventory phase right now, taking stock of all the digital assets that I have acquired just in the last few years, to then plan my line of cuts.
Here are just a few:
8 active email address with numerous aliases 1575 UNREAD email out of 49,000 35 Domains and extensions (anyone want to buy technojeeper.com?) 5 twitter accounts (and I never use twitter) 7 instagram accounts 6 Slack Accounts 2 Discord Accounts 7 Basecamp Accounts over 300 application/website logins in my LastPass (so many trials....) Too many documents to even put a number on - on iCloud, One Drive, multiple google drives. Many unfinished designs, proposals, downloaded articles, clipart, duplicates, etc, etc.
I am looking forward to stopping all the dinging and little red circles with numbers in them I am looking forward to actually being able to find something I am looking for I am looking forward to more focused deep work on things that really have impact.
