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Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
Ann Blair • 3 highlights
amazon.comBut in day-to-day life, unintentional overload can occur at the expense of our executive function. The modern world can be excessively excitatory—music, electronic billboards, the light from a smartphone screen, the flickering of a TV screen, or simply the sound of a train entering the station. These are all factors that, when combined, can overloa
... See morePaul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
Anything you might want to accomplish—executing a project at work, getting a new job, learning a new skill, starting a business—requires finding and putting to use the right information. Your professional success and quality of life depend directly on your ability to manage information effectively. According to the New York Times, the average pers
... See moreTiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
As Internet consultant Clay Shirky said, “It’s not information overload, it’s filter failure.”
Robin Chase • Peers Inc
It all became too much, too fast. To quote a dear friend of mine, human beings simply aren’t equipped with the necessary bandwidth to process the explosion of information that our world has normalized.
UX Collective • The desktop metaphor must die
To return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because t... See more
Oliver Burkeman • Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket
idea of an information explosion or overload goes back to the 1960s, which seems poignant in retrospect. These concerns expressed a new