Information Vs. Knowledge

The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of

“Wisdom is the distilled essence of all of the details.”

—Neil deGrasse Tyson

“we maxed out intelligence but minimized wisdom”