Overcoming information overload with circular attention economies
When Critical Thinking Isn’t Enough: To Beat Information Overload, We Need to Learn ‘Critical Ignoring’
Ralph Hertwigtheconversation.com
augmented attention: the use of tools to widen and extend our view across time and space, so that we may become more attuned to the broader scale of the world we are entangled with.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
We can explore the ways in which our attention is generated, manipulated, valued and degraded. Sometimes attention might simply be a lens through which to read the events of the moment. But it can also force us toward a better understanding of how our minds work or how we value our time and the time of others. Perhaps, just by acknowledging its pre... See more
nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
Our society is desperately in need of a new paradigm in our relationship to information. The lens of scarcity, control, and pure consumption is no longer serving us. If we’re going to thrive in this new era, we need to transform information from a source of stress and uncertainty into a source of creativity and abundance. We need to learn how to su... See more
Tiago Forte • The Second Brain Manifesto - Forte Labs
We’re all informavores. The drive to know the unknown still exists in us all. It powers the unpredictability of the scarcity loop. It’s that deep, angsty discomfort we feel as we wait for information about an outcome. That could be knowing the falling of slot machine reels, a flood or drought of likes, the shifting of a Robinhood stock, or waiting
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