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Yet, ours is not truly an information economy. By definition, economics is the study of how a society uses its scarce resources. And information is not scarce - especially on the Net, where it is not only abundant, but overflowing. We are drowning in information, yet constantly increasing our generation of it. So a key question arises: Is there... See more
L. M. Sacasas • Your Attention Is Not a Resource
Recently I’ve gotten a lot of inbound from new grads asking for career advice, so I wrote down a list of things I wish I’d internalized sooner.
The key thing: being precocious has an expiration date. Threading the note in its entirety: https://t.co/dW7DAcmyng
We still haven’t fully realized how dramatically this state of affairs has changed. The internet has made it possible for people from anywhere in the world with access to the internet to create and share their ideas, stories, and connectednesss without permission. Seth Godin puts it bluntly: “The world just gave you control over the means of
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