information diet management
by Sixian and · updated 5d ago
information diet management
- Critical ignoring is the ability to choose what to ignore and where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities. Critical ignoring is more than just not paying attention – it’s about practising mindful and healthy habits in the face of information overabundance.
from When Critical Thinking Isn’t Enough: To Beat Information Overload, We Need to Learn ‘Critical Ignoring’ by Anastasia Kozyreva
sari added 10mo ago
critical thinking is no longer enough. we need critical ignoring.
- I find myself all the time without a great piece of content to consume. And the demand-supply thing just hasn't reached an equilibrium yet, maybe it never will. And audio is unique in the sense that it is at least 10 times easier to create an unbelievable hour of audio for me, and my format's interview, interviewing someone great like David. That e... See more
from A Compulsive Search for the Most Interesting People with Patrick O'Shaughnessy - Compound Manual by Frederik Gieschen
sari added 1y ago
- There are two ways people obtain info online: fishing and hunting.
Fishing is passive. You don’t know what you want to know and just casually scan the screen till something catches your interest. Examples include scrolling social media, browsing news websites, and idly refreshing the YouTube home page.
Hunting, on the other hand, is an active proces... See morefrom How to Find Good Information by Gurwinder
alex added 1y ago
- spending too much time in the big algorithmic feeds winds up being a form of intellectual monocropping. It’s not terribly diverse or surprising. It’s not that the stuff in your feeds is all bad; some of it’s great! But it’s got a deadening sameness to it.
from 9 Ways to ‘Rewild Your Attention’ by Clive Thompson
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- Whatever you pay attention to is being fermented by your brain…Every tweet you read, every newspaper you glance at, every show you watch, every email you skim, it’s all feeding your subconscious things to process. And whatever it’s fed, it will ferment into ideas and reactions. So if you want to come up with better ideas, you must get extremely str... See more
from The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas by Nat Eliason
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
The most straightforward way to improve your information diet is to develop a habit for meta-awareness; to pay attention to what you're paying attention to. When you find yourself reaching unprompted for your phone, or hovering over the Twitter icon, invoke the "10-10-10 rule:" ask yourself, if I consume this info, how will I feel about it in 10 m
... See morefrom The Intellectual Obesity Crisis by Gurwinder
sari added 1y ago
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.”
from The Intellectual Obesity Crisis by Gurwinder
sari and added 1y ago
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 morefrom Treat Your to-Read Pile Like a River, Not a Bucket by oliverburkeman.com
sari added 1y ago
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