Faced with the fact that there is too much to know, our strategy has been to build a system of stopping points for knowledge. It’s an efficient response, well-suited to the paper medium by which we preserved and communicated knowledge.

We have never before had access to so many perspectives, ideas, and information. Much of it is fleetingly interesting but ultimately inconsequential—not to be confused with expertise, let alone wisdom.

Information Overload has become Information Exhaustion,