information overload
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To Have Good Ideas, Remember To Get Bored
Photo by Suvodeb Banerjee I treat my earbuds rough, so every year or two they break. And every time, as I walk around the world without a constant soundtrack of Spotify and podcasts, I think to myself, “I really ought to do this more often.” And then I have ideas.
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Reduce Information Overload By Being Mindful
Information overload has become an everyday experience for anyone who works with computers, owns a smartphone or waits at a bus stop with minute-by-minute updates about arrival times.
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Notifications Are Evil
What’s your maximum NPH? How many notifications are you exposed to every hour? Let’s take a second to think critically about these constant requests for your attention: What do they mean? Who is making them? Why are they there? Before I wrote the Information Diet, I audited myself and found I was receiving upwards of…
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Email Charter Lays Out 10 Rules To Save Us All From Drowning In Email
We’re all suffering from email overload and it’s just getting worse every day. TED’s Chris Anderson has created a charter with the hopes of reversing the underlying cause of the email mess: emails that take longer to read and respond to than they take to write.