💥 DaVinci's Questionable Productivity Secrets and Avoiding Curiosity Traps

But curiosity without direction can be a taxing and ultimately unproductive endeavor. Choice is how we tame and channel and direct our curiosity, where we choose to allocate our time and energy, and ultimately, what we choose to pay attention to.

Curation has been too focused on the information and not enough on architecture; how we collect, store, augment, and utilize what’s already in our minds.

Technology treats the process of consuming and the process of creating as distinctly different, when the reality is that for our brains, the process of absorbing a book is not all too different from the process of producing one. We are always seeking new connections, combining and recombining old ideas to produce new ones. So why is it that we cons... See more