Self Link: Poverty of Attention
- Information is a fundamental building block of everything we do.
- According to the NYT, the average person consumes 34 GB of data daily.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention…
Building a Second Brain says that we have 5 5-day work week. But spend one of those days on average looking for misplaced information. This is very familiar to my first two months of full-time at Google, where I was inundated with a lot of new information, which I could not get my head around. I took notes in a book and could not understand how something was linked to something else. I was very lost.