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Hey, I don't mean to be negative here. Is it really day 50 of the hundred days? Day
50? It's already the 50th? Thank you Tweet deck. You're really well timed. You can't
put a candle to that. Hey, what's going on? Hey, what's going on?
Darren WIlliger. Who else would you expect to be in there on Darren TV checking in for
the 100 days day 50. I can't even believe its day 50, but it occurred to me today, it's
day 50 of the 100 days. Anyway I'm recording to you for my HTC Evo 3D phone, probably do
for refresh because, you know, it's just normal that every year we get new technology. Anyway
but I've not refreshed this phone. Maybe I should get one of those iPhones.
Darren, enough digressions. Get to the hundred days. There's things to do. So, I'm going
to have references to things ihatephones.com and other things on the theme of ineffective
communications and all that stuff. I'm going to be right back.
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in. Thank you. I really appreciate you taking the time to tune in to my VLog today. It really
mean a lot you tune into the VLog. It mean lot to me personally, not so much professionally
though. I'm grateful for the tunings, the tunings that are in. Not all tunes are in,
but not all ins are tunes. Anyway, friends, thanks for tuning in to Darren
Williger's VLogs, smiling bald man to the stars. It is the 4th of November 2012. So,
yeah, what's going on? It's the 100 days. It's day 50. Where am I at? Dropped 10 pounds,
blood pressure is improving, and I would show you that on the phone, but I'm actually using
the phone to make a recording here. I've got to point out. There's going to be
references to URLs like ihatephones.com and things like that, but I'm going to be really
clear. I don't hate phones. I love these little portable computers that I carry around in
my pocket, computer in the pocket. They could do amazing things. I really love these palms
phones and devices to the level that I digress. I could probably have seven videos about that.
I will, but the main point of this VLog is, the main point of the VLog is one of the reasons,
where the hell's the camera on this phone? I don't where I'm supposed to be looking at.
One of the reason that I, this is kind of *** me off. Would it kill a phone maker
to make a front-facing camera that's widescreen? I mean I can always use the tablet. I've got
a tablet, but the problem is it's not as good quality, but it will be widescreen. So, it's
in camera mode. Hello! So, anyway, I got multiple screens
now. I've got a tablet over here and a phone over here, and in my hand, I have a phone.
It's a Palm Veer. I like it because it has a keyboard. I'm not the board of keys, I tell
you. So, I don't hate phones. The website I Hate Phones is because for the past several
years, I continued to get to this place where I recognized that older, less-effective communications
waived my ability embrace more modern communications such as video logging and blogging and tweeting.
Reality is this and this is kind of crazy for those that are semi-new to the old and
new social media sharing experience, but I've been blogging for 30 years, yeah 30 years,
30 freaking years. You say, "Darren, you've been blogging for 30 years?" Yeah. So, when
I say that, I began using BBS in the late 70s. I'm 42. I started using BBS in the late
70s, early 80s. The other technology I embraced heavily was freaking phone hacking.
We took control over the largest available computer network we had access to, which was
the phone network, to stay in touch with people as I moved throughout my life, being a kid
whose father and corporate gig made us leave. To stay in touch with friends all over the
country and sometimes around the world, with a comp, without paying for a phone call, we
took advantage of the phone systems that were available to us at the time, and, perhaps,
that's why I have phone problems. So, the point is this. I don't hate phones.
I don't phones. I hate how obsessive I get about phones. I look over the past few years,
I mean 2009. Again, 2010 and again in 2010. Then, in 2011. Then, I really cut back on
blogging and social sharing for a couple of reasons. Well, main reason is 18 months ago
I took a job, and I really enjoyed. However, for a couple of reasons, I have not been as
social as I have been in the past with tweeting and blogging and everything else because I
don't want to put out that perspective where someone's going to say, "Hey, blah, blah,
blah. You made time to blah, blah, blah tweet or blah, blah, blah social."
The point is when I started off, people were a little bit standoffish about my food photography
or tweet shares, and that was very well accepted. My reflection is this, several times over
the past several years, I've hit points, mostly personally, where I've become overwhelmed
with telephones or e-mail, and it's because of how I choose to embrace more modern communications.
People made comments like "You make a lot of great videos" or "You're very active on
Twitter. How do you do that? Give me a call." Well. It's because I don't embrace technologies
like telephone and e-mail. In fact, when I use technology like telephone and e-mail,
it really stops my brain from going on to Twitter. It constipates it. It is my kryptonite,
and when I have superpower of communication at my fingertips, the ability to make videos
and tweet and share and photos and, hello, and take photos. There's so many awesome things
I could do with these little computers all over the place. The last thing I want to do
is make a phone call with it. It's disruptive. It's hell. I don't like the telephone.
Now, before I talk about my whole dislike of the telephone and e-mail and stuff like
that, I'd like to make a disclaimer professionally. This is about how I personally choose to embrace
this telephone tool. I recognize, for my career, I use the phone, and I use it very well. I'm
even going to compile a separate list of best practice for using a phone in the corporate
sales environment, things that I've learned from my past several years professionally.
I'm going to throw you out a little tidbit right now.
One thing that I like to use every time I reach out to make a phone call I won't ask,
"Is this is a good time?" Instead, I ask, "Is this a bad time?" By doing this I allow
the person to feel respected that I understand that a phone is a disruptive tool. It's not
like their sitting there in their office thinking, "Wow, I hope somebody calls and interrupts
me," and it never really is well-timed. However, by saying, "Is it a bad time," allows
the person to know not only that they're respected by me but also to consider, "Is this really
actually a preferred time to speak with Darren? Maybe there's something I have to go over
with him and this time would be preferable to another," or provide a time to schedule.
I'll throw another pointer out there. Agendas for calls, treat them like meetings, but that's
not the purpose of this video. This video is more of a rant about ineffective communications
as I've noticed for the past several years to get to this point where I recognized my
embracing old technology almost raised this inability to effectively enjoy new technology, and over
the past few years, I've got different videos and blogs dedicated to this.
If I were to think right now of all the different domains that I have purchased the past few
years to somehow assert my belief that these technologies have fallen by the wayside, majority
of them have to deal with telephones, starting off with ihatephones.com and going all the
way down the list from Phone Break and Ineffective Communications and Communications of the Future
and Communications of the Past and things like this. Obviously, this is something that
I've been struggling with for a while. I even made that great song back in 2010 about embracing
technology like the phone. Now, we say phone, but phone, 50 years ago,
was a rather boring device that was wired to a wall and you had to sit down and use
it in a certain way, but a phone now is a completely different thing. It's an awesome
device that I carry around to take photos and shoot videos, and it's kind of annoying
when you're trying to shoot a video and you get a phone call.
So, I'll share one of my pet peeves. My pet peeve is somebody who will call me up because
they saw me tweet. I have yet to understand this dynamic, and I consider it rather selfish
of the person who actually uses it. So, let's say I've not had a chance to be on Twitter
for a while. When I get on Twitter, I actually like to have some time to sit down and enjoy
reconnecting with everybody. I prefer to stay connected; however, I digress.
I've had many experiences where I'll sit down and I'll put something on Twitter, and the
phone will ring. It will be somebody who's like, "Well, I knew you were by a phone because
you sent out a tweet," and it's sad. It stifles the experience. Maybe I was about to send
out another one or I was having a conversation with somebody else. It's incredibly selfish
to do that in my opinion, but that's just me, isn't it, just now.
However, what I'm doing, because of my whole realization that part of the reason that I
do the 100 day, part of the reason that I make VLogs is so that I can continue to break
life cycles, continue to improve future life experiences, productivity, growth, and ability
to contribute to society as a whole. I am realizing that I would be best for me to create
certain limitations and boundaries about phones. So, for the next 24 hours that began at 5
PM today, well, technically number one, beginning at Friday at 5 PM, overwhelmed with extending
my phone vacations beginning when you hear back from a project related to Twitter ironically
enough, I disconnected. I sent notifications to the parties I was waiting to hear back
from by e-mail about something to do with Twitter saying, "Wait a second. I waited over
24 hours to hear back on something. I'm blocking it."
I was hoping to take 4 days off, but I can only fault myself for not asserting myself
sooner and stating the importance of me taking this downtime. I recognize that others perhaps
embrace e-mail differently, and others, perhaps, enjoy multitasking. I don't. I like hypertasking.
I'd rather dive into video and Twitter and things that really allow me to exert energy
on a positive way for at the end of the day, I leave with something.
I don't know, I'm annoyed. I get calls sometimes, and thank you. I posted a video earlier about
a reptile show, and a friend of mine sends me a text, "Hey, I see you're at a reptile
show. Give me a call." The purpose of the video was for someone to watch the video or
not. The reason I began blogging many years ago was to be able to connect with people.
I meet a lot of people and by blogging and sharing photos and breadcrumbs and the like,
along the way, people can pick and enjoy that as a leisure.
I really don't like how the phone works overall. More productively, I'd like be able to use
the phone to make a call and receive calls. Professionally, I've found more ways to juggle
this than I have, and personally, I like to make certain limitations. Perhaps, I'll just
limit the use of phones to certain nights and weekends and have them turned off with
exceptions, perhaps, speaking with like-minded people when I'm at the gym or times like that.
I definitely do like using a phone at the car. If I have a clear headset, it's a valuable
way to take advantage of that windshield time, but other than that, I find it mostly overwhelming.
I'm good at it. It's not that I choose not to embrace this technology of telephony of
days past. It's just because I choose to not do that. It's 2012. I like to show up extra
prepared for everything. No one puts me on the spot, and it's okay to be on the spot.
I'm clearly somebody who's good at being on the spot, but if I'm going to use an amount
of energy and stressing my adrenaline, it should be for something that has a positive
outcome or something where I can share at a more permanent basis like video or photos
or blogging, not something where it's a forgotten media.
Don't even get me started about people who make phone calls and want to talk about something,
and they end up doing something else when they're talking. I'm okay with things like
Skype. I enjoy that. Video conversations are a lot of fun in keeping engaged with the other
party, but old school telephony has fallen by the wayside for me. I've not had the phone
demons out in about 18 months, yeah, 18 months since I've made a rant about how others use
cell phones. So, I think that's progress in some stretch, but I got to go.
So, this is a long blog. I didn't want to go on for this long. I wanted to check in
for a just a minute and then take you on a little tour of something that I got from the
flea market today, maybe show photo that I took with my phone, but there's definitely
cool things like the shopping cart or the Chikc or the candlestick.
Take a look at what I did buy. Okay, that's it. Thanks for tuning in. I appreciate you
taking the time to enjoy my ramblings, and I'll see you on Twitter or some other communication
tool. I like when my phone is not a phone because it lets me take more videos and do
more Tweets. Anyway, take a look here. This is a shopping
cart for only $3, but because it's only the size of my hand, any shopping done with it
actually saves me additional money. Alright, I have this $3 shopping cart. I'm not sure
what's going to go in it. Let's see, rocks. I sometimes find myself shopping for rocks.
Hey, what do we got here? It's a rock of peace. Don't throw that. You have to admit it's a
rock. Anyway, that's the shopping cart. What else do we have from the flea market
today? Hello, this is the hand puppet marked from $3 to $1, and her name, Chica. Hello,
my name is Chica. What else do we have? We have the emergency 8 candles with matches
for $1. So, total spent $5. Total good achieved: Shopping cart, emergency candles with matches,
and Chica. Let's see what's in here. I'm using my hand
today. It's very manly. So, we got candles and matches and Chica. Thanks for tuning in
to Darren's flea market VLog.