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(Herbert Simon said it best: “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”)
John Brockman • This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)
Herbert A. Simon wrote presciently, ‘the wealth of information means a dearth of something else … a poverty of attention’.
Nir Eyal • Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
To navigate our way through this immense world of data, we learn early in life to focus on information that appears essential or of particular interest. And to tune out the rest.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently am... See more