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• 11 Jan 09
  

  Joelle Nebbe-Mornod

  imported Bookmarks productivity information lifehacks gtd time tips article delicious

  • Is the entertainment or social value worth the time and effort to maintain the input?
  • • Avoid anything billed as “infotainment”. Infotainment, that bastard child of the mass media’s onanistic self-importance, is supposed to be information combined with entertainment; far more often, it’s neither.
     
    • If you find yourself nodding enthusiastically in agreement with everything someone says — even me! — chances are you are not being informed.
     
    • Turn off your TV. (Yeah, like that’s going to happen…)
     
    • Shoot your TV. 550,000 Elvises can’t be wrong.
     
    • One in, two out. Don’t add another RSS feed without deleting two. (But not this one!) Don’t subscribe to an email list unless you first unsubscribe from two. And so on.
     
    • Have goals. Make sure every input in your life has a purpose — and delete it when it no longer serves that purpose. You might subscribe to a magazine to get a free book bag — fine. If the goal has been met, go ahead and throw out the magazine — don’t feel obligated to maintain an input once it’s achieved its purpose.
• 11 Apr 08
  

  new_ideas_daily

  information-overload information-glut overload-information glut-information

• 26 Mar 08
  

  A Peter

  knowledge-management productivity

  • Just as you read the side of boxes to determine whether the food you buy is any good for you, I want to suggest you look at the “nutrition information” on your inputs and see if they contain any actual information. Ask yourself the following questions:

     
     
    1. Is this input making me better informed? If yes, you’re good to go. If no, then;
     
    2. Is there any entertainment or social value I receive from this input? If no, delete the input. If yes, it may be worth keeping — we need to be entertained sometimes, and we need to stay in touch.
     
    3. Is the entertainment or social value worth the time and effort to maintain the input? Are you getting 30 minutes of good entertainment value from your 22 minutes plus commercials of sitcom watching? Is the email newsletter from your favorite charity worth the time to read and delete it? Weigh every input against the time it takes to process and see if, were it gone, your life wouldn’t be just as good or even better.
• 20 Mar 08
  

  Jill ONeill

  essentially the point is to examine your own methods of information intake and select the best ones. Not rocket science

  information communication trends

• 19 Mar 08
  

  Eric Schultz

  institutional_economics attention_economics?

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  Ratcatcher

  "By definition, you can’t have too much information; when an input, no matter how good, ceases to inform you, it is no longer information...If you find yourself nodding enthusiastically...chances are you are not being informed."

  information overload tips in:lifehack via:PatErwin theory

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