Our work as entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, craftsmen is to keep evolving a set of tools to relieve our brains from this huge mess. Lifestreaming, friend-feeding, micro-blogging, content-chunking, micro-formating is here to stay, but our brains can’t handle it alone.
(Fred Oliveira on information overload)
I stopped checking my feed reader regularly, don’t update Twitter that much, have been slow on blogging and feel like I need a month just to read the interesting stuff (how do I know what is interesting before reading it?). And when I finish I’ll need a new update. What is the problem? Do I have too many interests? Is everything new topic just to easy to start following? Is this why I love the calm, not hyperlinked, world of magazines?
The Long Tail says we need more and better filters (ways to sort through the vast amounts of information available) to improve the our signal-to-noise ratio. But how do we filter information using systems that keep asking us to add more and more information?
Without questions we find no answers. Questions help us keep in mind the problems that led us to create, design and develop new things.
