{"id":11512,"date":"2020-01-27T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/?p=11512"},"modified":"2020-03-27T03:14:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T11:14:53","slug":"info-overload-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/27\/info-overload-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Information Overload is a Fake Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

The internet reachable by Google has over a million terabytes of data<\/a>. Every minute 300 hours of new video is added to YouTube<\/a>. In the time it took to read this sentence, at least 10,000 new tweets have appeared on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re drowning in information, so it\u2019s only natural to feel overwhelmed. Right?<\/p>\n

I was asked about this in a recent podcast: how can you deal with information overload? On the surface, it seems like a completely reasonable question. There is so much more to read, watch and respond to that it can feel a bit overwhelming.<\/p>\n

However, I think the explosion of data hasn\u2019t really changed much about how we ought to stay informed. Most things aren\u2019t worth reading. Of those that are, there\u2019s an enormous amount of redundancy built in. The amount of truly original ideas worth learning is much, much smaller than statistics like I quoted above would lead you to believe.<\/p>\n

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On the (Relative) Paucity of Good Ideas<\/h2>\n
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