You get what you put into the world. I really like the zen feeling of this statement.
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You get what you put into the world. I really like the zen feeling of this statement.
It's 18 October 2016, and it is the annual occurrence of Information Overload Awareness day. It's not like we forget we are overloaded every other day of the year.
Thanks to Mark Graban's recent Leanblog podcast with Steve Bell, I found a long list of "information wastes" that serve as an appendix to Bell and Orzen's _Lean IT: Enabling and Sustaining Your Lean Transformation_ (2010).
I drew David Allen's logic in response in describing why people get overwhelmed at work (and elsewhere).
Ask yourself some good questions, rather than worry about getting buried in information. This is the essential advice of Frank and Magnone's new book.
Chris Grams writes "Three tips for escaping the creativity peloton without giving up on collaboration" and Robert Scoble gives us "Coming soon: the disruptive molecular age of information." Both contain interesting metaphors.
I hold that the best way to deal with this is to encourage fewer people to send you email. Of course, before that happens you still need some solutions for triaging when there is too much.
CommonCraft have published another informative video, but this time the interesting part (to me) isn't the subject of the video.
Information overload can be considered an individual problem to be solved by many of the rules I've written about in my own journey around personal effectiveness. Or it can be thought of as part of a larger system of people interacting that needs to be addressed with a systematic approach.
Craig Roth has posted his view on how the (Enterprise) Attention Management lens can look at the technical side of email to help with the information overload issue.
With apologies to my dear friend Luis Suarez and his goal of eliminating email, there are just times when email does the job fairly well.
Shawn Callahan is bummed that his masters-level students are using sources (Google and Wikipedia) without evaluating their reliability. Information literacy is an important, but dying, art form.
Helgi Páll Einarsson writes, "The internet vs. inner peace" in which he provides suggestions on overcoming the haze of over-stimulation.
The conversation about aggregator features gets a little confusing, if you aren't paying attention to the problem you are trying to solve. Here are some Feed Overload problems one might encounter and want to address with a better tool.
Luke Naismith writes about "Infoluenza." This idea goes beyond strict information overload and suggests a group psychology that prevents us, as a society, from stopping and thinking about what we are doing and why.
Steve Borche of Connecting the Dots has an idea for "smart aggregators." This is something I've been looking for as well for some of the same reasons, primarily information overload.
Martin Dugage at Mopsos took away "Three questions from Richard McDermott" at a recent conference. He provides his answers, and I figured I'd could take a crack at them too. 1: Is more knowledge always better? 2: Is more connectivity better? 3:How do we deepen our expertise?
The Intranet Journal has an article from Paul Chin on "Dealing with Information Overload." He's got some interesting comments about the effect of having all this information available, primarily it looks like attention deficit disorder.
Dinesh Tantri of Organic KM found "KM survey results-Economist Intelligence Unit." Dinesh found this interesting for the use of the word "actionable." I find this interesting as an expert in knowledge management and after spending my first week in Goldratt School.