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Super eSnippers:

As users share more and more on eSnips, the richness and diversity of their personality is revealed.

The one thing that I find to be the most fascinating about eSnips and lacking in other social sharing sites is that eSnips is multi-dimensional, it let's people express their many facets and their diverse personality in ONE place and in a very simple and straight forward manner:  Just create a folder for anything you want to share. 

What comes our is beautiful and inspiring.  Visit  these Super eSnippers:

Venu, Tobias, Samantha, Bruce, jyothy, James, Lisa,  Rebecca, Anushka, David, Debra, mjkgemini,   and many many others....

Yet another typical eSnipper - me!

It is very typical for eSnippers to start with one private or group shared folder, and then gradually 'evolved' to publishing one folder, and then many more.  I took the same path. I now have around 5 public folders. A new one I recently started is: things that make me laugh.  I just updated it today with a funny piece I received by email just now and made me laugh (not just smile) while waiting at the airport gate. Bush's part to be the funniest.

When to know you travel a LOT?

I just realized on my recent transatlantic flight what are the little signs that tell me that I REALLY travel  A LOT these days  (too much):

• Not sleeping in transatlantic flights doesn't drive me nuts.
• I am perfectly calm in my coach seat, not even thinking of a better seat further in the front with leg room.
• I remain calm when after  a 12 hour flight the gate is occupied or the  plane circles in the air for 45 additional minutes.
• I've seen all the movies the entertainment system offers and no longer laugh  when watching the same Frasier episode for the fourth time.
• When my suitcase stays half full in the living room until the next flight
• and I realize I have more US / Europe jack cables and connectors than makeup in my suitcase

Taking Kathy Sierra's advice a step further

An obsession for 'keeping up' with information is a 'feature' that I really dislike in people. I admit. Probably because it often comes with (or is there to make up for)  a lack of original thinking. Regardless of whether you meet these people in a business setting or  a personal, social setting, you get the feeling you are talking with someone else who isn't even in the room (that is the author of the article they read or the company they are impressed with, or a friend that sounded very smart to them). I personally lose  interest.  It is probably the  least appealing personality trait I can think of, and definitely not something to have in a start up environment.   

So when I came across Kathy Sierra 'The myth of "keeping up' post (I found it on Stowe's blog), I couldn't agree more with the 'Just let go' part; but for a different reason than Kathy.  My reason is not the mere realization that you will never be able to keep up with everything, but rather that the obsession is often counterproductive for you, and an indication that you are probably not focused on what's relevant to you at a given point in time and rely too much on what others think or do.  Bottom line: read less, think more, rely on your own thoughts and instincts.