Easy Answers — Real Life
“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers,” author Neil Gaiman said. “A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
Mario Gabriele • All the Answers | The Generalist
The internet age has a dark side in our work: Advice Overload. It’s just so tempting and easy to seek our answers elsewhere that we find ourselves with far too many of them, far too quickly.
Jay Acunzo • Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work
To be able to do and know so much and yet to be unable to predict what we crave to know is painful and frustrating. So we perpetuate the age-old search for sources of certainty. That leaves us susceptible to pundits and prophets: experts and forecasters who claim superior knowledge.
Margaret Heffernan • Uncharted
