Clay Shirky, in one of his most famous talks about information overloadsaid that the problem with the internet isn’t information overload, but filter failure. His thesis: The flood of information isn’t the problem, it’s the failure of tools to help us curate the signal from the noise.
Given that your attention is a precious commodity, consider replacing the latest political rant from your co-worker on Facebook with something of dramatically higher quality: Dave Pell’s “Next Draft”
Next Draft is “a quick, entertaining look at the day’s best stories, from the top of the news, to the very bottom” and comes highly recommended by some of the most respected publishers in the world. According to Dave Pell, “Each morning I visit about 75 news sites, and from that swirling nightmare of information quicksand, I pluck the top ten most fascinating items of the day, which I deliver with a fast, pithy wit that will make your computer device vibrate with delight. No bots. No computer algorithms.”
Why wouldn’t you take advantage of this much-lauded human filter? Next Draft even has an app to make it easier to improve your “information intake.”
Learn more:
http://nextdraft.com/
