too much choice
what the proliferation of choice and abundance has done to our hearts and brains
Keely Adler and
too much choice
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.
Anastasia Kozyreva • When Critical Thinking Isn’t Enough: To Beat Information Overload, We Need to Learn ‘Critical Ignoring’
critical thinking is no longer enough. we need critical ignoring.
I do not want more doors—I want to walk through one without looking back
amber. • the hunger to be everything.
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Too many choices may induce regret, but “no choice” is a far worse option. Civilization is a steady migration away from “no choice.” As always, the solution to the problems that technology brings, such as an overwhelming diversity of choices, is better technologies. The solution to ultradiversity will be choice-assist technologies. These better... See more
Kevin Kelly • What Technology Wants
no one warned us of the disease it carries. Of how too much possibility can fray the edges of a person
amber. • the hunger to be everything.
It’s all very paradoxical: that the ability to constantly communicate has made us bad communicators, that instant access to all forms of entertainment would leave us with so few touchstones, that surveilling kids doesn’t necessarily make them safer, that the absence of limitations also often means the absence of creativity — and that the particular... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • The Sterile World of Infinite Choice
