Hoarding information is different from building up knowledge. When we fall prey to information overload, we suffer from the failure of our attention filter.
Nice piece, Massimo. I especially like step 3. I also like the fact that you admit your failure.
These are questions that the lack of answers to pick at the edges of my well being. Don't have viable answers yet. I find many different things that interest me and that I find relevant. But, I hardly ever come back to them after I capture their link. But, hey, there's always tomorrow.
Something that worked for me was describing accurately the "why". Write a piece to yourself and explain with rich detail why you were attracted to something.
There are some interesting consequences following that habit: you have to focus on one thing, You have to investigate your thoughts and explain them, you create original content in the process!
Ideally if we would dedicate such focused time to one single interesting thing we would have to limit drastically the number of links we can observe but the quality of our observations (and satisfaction ) would increase astronomically.
Nice piece, Massimo. I especially like step 3. I also like the fact that you admit your failure.
These are questions that the lack of answers to pick at the edges of my well being. Don't have viable answers yet. I find many different things that interest me and that I find relevant. But, I hardly ever come back to them after I capture their link. But, hey, there's always tomorrow.
Thanks, Scott, for sharing your experience.
Something that worked for me was describing accurately the "why". Write a piece to yourself and explain with rich detail why you were attracted to something.
There are some interesting consequences following that habit: you have to focus on one thing, You have to investigate your thoughts and explain them, you create original content in the process!
Ideally if we would dedicate such focused time to one single interesting thing we would have to limit drastically the number of links we can observe but the quality of our observations (and satisfaction ) would increase astronomically.
Try it!