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More on the Battle of Focus in an Information Overload Era – (with insight from McChrystal’s Team of Teams & Cal Newport’s Deep Work)

In 2011 Americans took in five times as much information every day as they did in 1986—the equivalent of 175 newspapers. Where once an educated person might have assumed she was at least conversant with the relevant knowledge on a particular field of study, the explosion of information has rendered that assumption laughable. 
 General… Read More More on the Battle of Focus in an Information Overload Era – (with insight from McChrystal’s Team of Teams & Cal Newport’s Deep Work)

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Is “Information Overload” a myth – or, at least, not really a problem?

Slate.com tackles this question in Don’t Touch That Dial! A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook by Vaughan Bell. It is a fun and enlightening read.  Here’s the concluding paragraph: The writer Douglas Adams observed how technology that existed when we were born seems normal, anything that is developed before… Read More Is “Information Overload” a myth – or, at least, not really a problem?

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Rx for Information Overload — The First Friday Book Synopsis

There is too much to know.  Really — there is too much to know. Everywhere around us, we see this truth pounded home.   Recently 60 Minutes re-ran its great, touching, sad, profound story about “Picking Cotton.”  (Transcript available here).  It is the true story of Ronald Cotton, falsely accused of raping Jennifer Thompson-Cannoni, identified… Read More Rx for Information Overload — The First Friday Book Synopsis

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A “Book” or an “Essay” — Some thoughts on Good Books and Information Overload

I read a lot of books — not as many as some, and in this chapter of my life, not as many as our blogging partner Bob Morris — but I read a lot of books.  Let me state the obvious — many (most) business books are not masterpieces of great literature.  But nearly all… Read More A “Book” or an “Essay” — Some thoughts on Good Books and Information Overload

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The Crunch of the Immediate and our Struggle with Information Overload

Information overload has set in. People have been talking about this for quite a few years. But now it is getting serious. Everywhere I go, somebody else is writing about the problem. Too many e-mails. Too many distractions. The people in the United States are losing any ability to take an actual vacation. Most can’t… Read More The Crunch of the Immediate and our Struggle with Information Overload

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