function git-unpushed {
brinfo=$(git branch -v | grep $(git-branch-name))
if [[ $brinfo =~ ("[ahead "([[:digit:]]*)) ]]
then
echo "(${BASH_REMATCH[2]})"
fi
}


It’s easy to notice the increase in areas of knowledge we access and assume that means we’re processing more information. But I wouldn’t be surprised if this came at considerable detriment to how we interact with our immediate surroundings.The photographic memory version of life where you scan information quickly and process it instead of paying attention to the world around you might mean you’ve pushed your knowledge to new frontiers faster, but everything in the middle – the everyday proceedings of our lives, interactions with people and the real physical world we live in, and exploration of what it means to be human – all those things get overshadowed by a quest for “knowledge”.
I also find that a lot of the knowledge I consume on internet binges is not particularly important or relevant to my life, will not help me contribute to a better world. It’s a sort of addiction – “I’ll follow that link because it looks interesting and I need to know everything that’s interesting”. And there’s always a temporary satisfaction that dwindles into a kind of emptiness that wants more. Not everything that is interesting is worth the time I spend learning it.
You talk about how creativity doesn’t happen in a vacuum and is stimulated by information. That’s fairly valid. But if anyone is parsing tens of kilobytes of text a day, most of it will have very little impact on their life and work. Learning peripheral things is not all bad – sometimes you need to think about something else, and other times it’s genuinely stimulating to learn about how people have thought about unrelated problems. But it’s a minority of that knowledge that has an impact. And if you really want to do high-quality work, the main input you need is feedback from the work itself. You need to really be paying attention to how it feels to use it, whether it fulfils its purpose, how to use the particularity of your medium to make your job easier. Heck, craftsmen from the 13th century made things that are still functional and beautiful now by paying attention to what they were doing – not by sitting on their couch gathering random knowledge.
Also if you’re doing your own thinking, it doesn’t take a kilobyte of input before you start having your own creative ideas. But with the internet there are so many sources of input and hyperlinks to follow that it’s so easy to stop thinking for yourself and just follow to the next place you know there will be something interesting. It feels like thinking because you’re trying to understand as fast as possible, but it’s guided by the data-stream.

http://brettterpstra.com/my-new-favorite-bash-prompt/

With the applications, you should try evernote, astrid task and the “Go” application series.

I’m hoping to enter the Android world this year as well. Going native using Java ^^