How Too Much Information Can Make Us Stupid and Miserable
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How Too Much Information Can Make Us Stupid and Miserable
Regardless of whether you’re working more or less, your nervous system is now plugged into a neurotic and hypersensitive globe-spanning information system that’s constantly pushing unnecessary things into your consciousness. Perversely, this information obesity actually makes us feel more sluggish . We might be moving faster, but everything starts ... See more
Brett Scott • Tech Doesn’t Make Our Lives Easier. It Makes Them Faster
Reflecting on this email from a Sublime believer:
Consuming media has become a massive time-suck for humankind. Only decades ago, the average person had one source of information, if any — the newspaper. Journalists chronicled happenings relevant to their community. And that was it. Someone got married, someone is selling their house, someone died,
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