[November 8, 2011 - Fairfax, CA]
Learning Curves
For the past 20 minutes, I've been searching for the best method for sharing my articles / photos on Google +.
I've been sharing over on Google + a bit, after simply sitting back an observing how people I respect have been using Google+ since the Beta launch last Spring. Gradually, I started creating circles and commenting on posts. And after some months...timidly sharing my own. Which is how I behave in social situations, BTW.
Learning Google + does have a learning curve. It's not insurmountable, or even big. But it's there. And I'm noticing how the learning curve slows me down. After all, I went there to post, something wasn't working, and there I am, twenty minutes later, still researching...while other interesting rabbit holes of information open with every scroll through the search results.
Still don't have the answer I'm looking for.
And my article still isn't posted. (It might be by the time you read this.)
This is how the learning curve has the potential to suck time away from what I really want to be doing. The work. My work.
So, the learning curve, especially with technology, is something I am bringing into awareness. I am mindfully opening to equilibrium.
What if I factored learning curve time into everything new I am trying to do?
Does that seem terribly obvious?