# Fed up with feed up

- Link: https://www.andreidraganescu.info/2016/12/16/fed-up-with-feed-up/
- Published: 2016-12-16T12:11:27+03:00
- Author: Andrei Draganescu

So [Gary Vaynerchuk](https://medium.com/u/c4ec9163657c) does it again. He gave the
world his branded recipe for mediocrity:

> document don’t create

Well shit.

This means, more cat photos and food with filters and listicles with 22 advice for
every 22 year old. This means more people spewing into the world’s feeds their particular
experience as a template for just about anyone in said world.

It means even more content to fill in distribution channels so that anything of 
real value, ya know the created stuff, gets such a tiny spot that it goes completely
unnoticed in the real time world of today.

What happened to don’t write unless you have something to say? M, too harsh?

Well, we are currently executing a DDOS attack on our own world perception. I wonder
when we’ll shut down. Everywhere you look there is a feed. The TV is a list of feeds,
the Internet is a bucket of feeds, constant networking is a never ending feed, you
face feeds of gossip, you try to ignore advertising an over the top aspirational
feed and so on and so forth.

But consciousness is not born out of constant input but by input, internalisation
and introspection. Nobody has any time left for the other two stages. Then we are
shocked at the lack of empathy around.

I read very little of my Medium feed. I feel guilty for not reading some of my follower’s
work as much as I should because they do great writing. But I take my time. For 
instance, if I am hit with a great personal story, I wait, maybe a whole month before
jumping into the next article of “look what happened to me”. It takes time, but 
I know in the background there is a process which helps me update my world view 
from others’ shared experiences.

Information promiscuity has the same effect as sexual promiscuity: numbness. Don’t
be fooled, I love promiscuity, it is a great outfit for the absurdity of existence.
But you need to do it right and take care of not losing yourself.

I think Gary Vaynerchuk’s advice should not be followed by people who give a fuck
about the future of this world. Shut the fuck up and create don’t document. Stop
the flood of crap our minds constantly must handle.

Even on Facebook.