Some background details are required; this is a two-part post.

A few weeks ago, Jeff Widman was kind enough to take the time to engage me in a phone coversation about the direction I was thinking of taking in life. He started the conversation off with what should have been a simple question, but rather managed to leave me sputtering for an answer: ”What are your interests and passions?”

I had already begun to explore this topic in the past few months, but my inability to provide a definite response served as a wake-up call that a quest to find direction and advice would certainly be hindered by not even knowing for what I needed to ask.

That phone call not only helped prompt the beginning of a series of intermittent posts on finding one’s story, but also forced me to address what I consider my own interests and passions to be. I utilized, however, a different strategy than intensive self-reflection I thought might be required to manage this endeavor.  

My logic went something like this (and was partially revised after viewing Charlie Hoehn’s ‘How to Hack Someone’s Mind‘):

  1. I read a fair number of articles each day that cover a decent range of subjects. 
  2. I don’t actually file these articles, beyond leaving them clumped together in Google Reader. 
  3. A current goal of mine is to be able to provide a clear response when asked what interests me and what topics I would like to pursue in greater focus. 
  4. Cohesively, these articles ostensibly represent my interests. Putting them in decent order could potentially reveal to me answers to some of my larger questions.                                                                                                                                       a). Worst case scenario: I share a lot of fun articles with friends while injecting some organization into my life.

And so I began sharing articles on Facebook. And so I quickly realized that while Facebook does a lot, a top-notch social bookmarking site it is not. Thus began my foray into delicious.

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I plan to round out a lot in the follow-up to this post, as well as provide some insight as to what the title means. Thanks, as always, for reading this far.