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“Context is that which is scarce”
Our passage into bright contemporaneity has carried a price: The more complex and sophisticated our systems of lateral access, the more we sacrifice in the way of depth.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
One alternative to this state of affairs is to ditch the idea, should we be under its sway, that what we need to make our way in the world is simply more information. For one thing, there are practical difficulties: even in cases where more information might be genuinely helpful, it may not be forthcoming when we need it. But, more importantly, som... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Answer Is Not More Information
the importance of understanding context. Frequently, people try to cram the lessons or experiences from one situation into a different situation. But that strategy often crashes because the decisions that work in one context often fail miserably in another. The right answer to most questions that professionals face is, “It depends.”
Michael J. Mauboussin • Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition
The information I encounter there lacks context, both spatially and temporally.