Thriving on Overload: The 5 Powers for Success in a World of Exponential Information

It will usually be more useful to select more specific frames, such as capturing the core ideas of hybrid work, clarifying important concepts such as scalable learning, or understanding the dynamics of how to attract and retain talented employees.

“The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind—creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers,” he says.3 Among the aptitudes Pink puts at the center of success in this era is what he calls “symphonic thinking.” “Symphony . . . is the ability to put together the pieces,” Pink writes. “It

Review your information purposes and start with a blank slate. If you were setting up your information portfolio from scratch, what portals would be most important? Which outlets, if any, are worth going to directly? Can any media aggregators be useful, perhaps with some setup? If you choose to build feeds of media or individuals, how will you sele

Formulate decisions that will make you better informed for your next decision.

We should adopt as a core precept the adage of influential social scientist Gregory Bateson: “Knowledge comes from but a single perspective; wisdom comes from multiple perspectives.”

changed the neural circuitry in their brains to produce highly specialized mental representations, which in turn make possible the incredible memory, pattern recognition, problem-solving, and other sorts of advanced abilities needed to excel in their particular specialties,”

Herbert Simon coined the neologism “satisfice” to describe decisions that sufficed to satisfy a threshold of acceptability.

Rather than sources, we should think about “portals,” the doorways through which we discover information, each with distinctive characteristics in how they filter and aggregate inputs.

signal-to-noise ratio, the proportion of useful information to meaningless noise transmitted over a channel.