Comments on: Create, Connect, and Consume

By: Information Overload or Anxiety? | Smart Fresh Writing for Business | Rebecca Leigh

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:43:43 +0000

[...] For more on the create, consume, connect relationship check out Charlie Gilkey’s excellent article of the same title. He says: [...]

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:16:09 +0000

I like this idea, JV. I’ve been thinking about it for a while now.

You mentioned:

I may need to blog, write a story, explore Twitter and forums, have my car fixed, and pack a bag for a trip.

The first two I’d place under Create, the third under Connect, and the last two are where I’d see a lot of people falling down. They don’t quite fall into the 3C paradigm, and are easy to forget – yet, at the same time, it’s an activity that I can see trapping a lot of people.

For instance, it’s a sure bet that Angela’s putting something off if I see her vacuuming. ;p

I’ll continue to mull about this. Thanks for the suggestion.

By: Fern

Fern — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:10:55 +0000

Thanks for the great post, Charlie. As I’m sure everyone can relate, my task list is as long as my arm and I often struggle with how stay on track and be more productive. This Create, Connect, Consume model is a great way to break up the day and focus on my priorities.
Another great way to Create and Connect at the same time is to use online Collaboration tools, such as http://www.wizehive.com. I’ll be following you on Twitter and subscribing to your feed. Thanks for the advice!

By: JV Mallory

JV Mallory — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:11:33 +0000

Hi Charlie,

This is really useful stuff, and comes just at the time when I’m flailing, struggling to prioritise. I’ll try this out today.

I wonder if one could usefully add something like “Control” or “Care” for the variety of administrative tasks that aren’t as fulfilling as the other three activities, and yet need to be done. For example, today I may need to blog, write a story, explore Twitter and forums, have my car fixed, and pack a bag for a trip. Maybe a separate stack for those would make them easier to schedule?

By: Transitions! — Third Hand Works

Transitions! — Third Hand Works — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:42:17 +0000

[...] probably balances your create/connect/consume needs in some way. a twitter break, a phone call to a [...]

By: “fragment of the infinite” (time) « Fiadhiglas Designs

“fragment of the infinite” (time) « Fiadhiglas Designs — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:02:56 +0000

[...] my overarching priorities are, and how I’m trying to work on them. This evening, I found a blog post that gave me a framework to conceptualize that higher-level of To Do list [...]

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:16:06 +0000

Good points, BC! Your consider framework is very similar to my own approach to “consume” – I just happen to like consume because it reminds me that intake is important.

I also think you’ll like the framework I’m working on in my upcoming book. I’ll contain myself and not talk too much about it here…but it’s in the works.

Thanks for adding to the conversation – I appreciate it.

By: BC

BC — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:10:16 +0000

Excellent essay.

Personally, I prefer “Create, Connect, and Consider” for my three C’s, though. (Consider this new source of information, or new angle on my task, consider I may have been heading in the wrong direction, or that I may have been second-guessing myself too much, consider impact on other people/tasks: in short, don’t so much “consume” outside sources, but “digest” them.) Raw consumption is not something I need to remind myself to do; I’m already a vacuum cleaner on full-time.

Either way, consume or consider, your ideas here seem a nice antidote to the mania for “GTD” — which I’m allergic to — and my wish that there were more attention to what I think of as a G&O system — for “generate and organize”. The GTD methodology seems too constrained and solipsistic to me.

By: Steve Marshall

Steve Marshall — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:30:46 +0000

Charlie,

This is a great post – the first time I have visited your blog and it looks like there is lots of other good stuff here too. I would count myself as a ‘creative’ – it’s taken a while for me to get here and I’m still trying to understand creativity and productivity – there is a lot for me to learn!
.-= Steve Marshall´s last blog ..Crazy Red Bus =-.

By: Mindmapping different kinds of Time -- bringing time consciousness into my daily To-Do list. — Making Ideas Visible

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:42:35 +0000

[...] it from To-Do-list-driven to something that works better for creatives (or really anybody) called Create, Connect & Consume. The premise is that if you are doing any one of those three things on a given day, it’s a [...]