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The Paradox of Abundance - David Perell
Ultimately you'll have to determine the info-diet that works for you. But if you insist on endlessly consuming whatever the web serves you, know that this banquet culminates in a bitter dessert: at the end of your life, when you're weighing your regrets, you probably won’t say “Man, I wish I’d spent more time browsing the web.”
gurwinder.substack.com • The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
Believing that everything will be better if only we gather more information commits us to endless searching and casting about, to one more swipe of the screen in the hope that the elusive bit of data, which will make everything clear, will suddenly present itself. From one angle, this is just another symptom of reducing our experience of the world... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Answer Is Not More Information
@jackbutcher The Paradox of Abundance
Information abundance, like all markets of abundance, are bad for the average person but great for a small number of people.
My favorite metaphor is health, where obesity rates and the number of people in incredible shape are *both* rising.... See more