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Filtering
Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in Old-blog-archives at 7:05 am on Wednesday, 25 January 2006

Talking to Mandy last night about a discussion earlier in the day she said something like … “I filtered that conversation” which essentially meant: I’m too busy to think about that so I choose not to engage.

Now that we’re part of a bigger company I have to Filter out a bunch of things.  It’s been interesting passing responsibilities for big chunks of work I used to sweat over to people much better at it than I am.  There is so much stuff going on I have to actively Filter things.

I did the same thing with red wine many years ago.  I decided I did not want to invest in thinking about wine.  As a consequence I don’t get wound up on it and enjoy almost any red wine.

Filtering is a coping technique for our modern land complex lives.  Hadn’t thought about that before but we do it all the time.

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