Insatiable Curiosity

This morning Becky Smith, founder and CEO of Triage Training, emailed me, asking “Have you Grokked yourself lately?” Well, no, not that I recall. So I surfed on over to Grokker.

Wow! Visual tracking of one’s relationships and publications. Ego-boo took over. I had to see what these guys had on me.

I entered jay cross learning, resulting in:

Clicking one of the circles brough this:

And other click:

If you don’t like circles, you can switch to squares. You can also select how far back in the past you want to deal with.

Grokker is cool. Also more svelte than the original version several years back. I love it.

But that’s not why I’m telling you this. I’ve got a time management issue to deal with.

I am insatiably curious. Of the hundreds of thousands of people who have completed the pscyhological profile at Authentic Happiness to identify their motivate skills, I appear to be the most curious person of the lot:

There is such a torrent of neat stuff appearing on the web every day that I could spend every waking hour just looking at and experimenting with it. I just blew an hour on the Grokker look-see and the trails it took me down.

If I don’t find an escape route, Mike Arrington will soon be running my entire life. (Mike’s Telecrunch is ground zero for Web 2.0 innovations).

I justify my lust for knowing about the latest web service as helping the world. I’ll propose how these goodies can improve learning.

I know I’m kidding myself.