information diet
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... See more
Oliver Burkeman • Treat Your to-Read Pile Like a River, Not a Bucket
People will pay for the convenience of not poring through internet sludge all day and having someone clarify what they need to know.”
Kyle Chayka • 🟧 Aggregation theory
The real trouble, according to the leading techno-optimist Clay Shirky, wasn't information overload, but "filter failure". We needed – and we'd eventually get – more sophisticated ways to filter the wheat from the online chaff. And then we'd no longer feel overwhelmed.
Oliver Burkeman • Treat Your to-Read Pile Like a River, Not a Bucket
Most would be more intellectually productive, however, in chasing mode. It helps to have in mind a question, puzzle, or problem, and then read in order to answer your question, explain your puzzle, or solve your problem.
Robin Hanson • Chase Your Reading
The mind that isn’t fed intelligence is usually fed useless information. Your mind becomes disciplined or weaker by what you feed it every day. What you put in your mind should be congruent with your future vision if you want to turn aspirations into reality.
Peter Voogd • 6 Months to 6 Figures
In chasing mode, readers are naturally more critical. When you are looking for something particular, it feels less presumptuous to stop reading when your source comes to seem irrelevant. After all, the source might be good for some other purpose, even if not for your purpose.
In chasing mode, you continually ask yourself whether what you are reading... See more
In chasing mode, you continually ask yourself whether what you are reading... See more
Robin Hanson • Chase Your Reading
Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms