How I'm Informed with Matthew Bellows
We are all involved in different interests, careers, and aspirations. Keeping informed is an important part of evolving your perspective, but also staying up-to-date. I asked a number of people in different industries to share their reading habits, and how they keep-up with the constant flood of information that matters to them.
Matthew Bellows - Founder & CEO, Yesware
I wake up at 6am and read/respond to email. On the bus to work, I check the normal tech websites and DailyKos. Most gaps in my meeting schedule during the day I fill with reading and replying to email with occasional forays into LinkedIn and Facebook to catch up on friends' lives. The one place I do not read emails is in meetings. It's the height of arrogance to focus my attention on electronic content when my colleagues are having a discussion in the same room. I really try not to do that.
At night before I go to sleep, I usually read a chapter or two from a real physical book. I'm currently reading "The Better Angels of Our Nature". It's an amazing survey of data that shows, all things considered, violence in society is declining. In between non-fiction like that, I'm reading the three volume "Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma" by Trungpa Rinpoche. It's a brilliant, very accessible and funny explanation of Buddhism by one of the 20th century's most important teachers.
Matthew Bellows is founder and CEO of Yesware--an email tool for sales people. He regularly tweets about startups and business building as @mbellows.
