Hi IHs,
The amount of information that we consume on daily basis is massive (emails, newsletter, tweets, articles, videos, you name it )
Do you suffer sometimes from information overload and do you have measures to deal with it?
I deal with it through radical intentionality. Instead of passively letting information get pushed to me, I actively choose which information to pull in.
Once a week (every Sunday), I set aside about 30 minutes to decide what I'm going to consume over the next 7 days. I choose a few books first, including a book I want to finish reading by the end of the week. Then I find 3–5 pieces of non-book content — videos, articles, newsletter issues, etc. — to read throughout the week. I do this by searching social media, my email, my favorite content sites, etc.
When the 30 minutes are over, my selection process ends. Any content that didn't make the cut won't get consumed that week. I won't read Twitter. I won't randomly click into new incoming newsletters in my email inbox. I won't read recommendations sent by friends. I'll feel tempted to do all these things, but I won't fall for it. Because I'll recognize that these temptations are just my brain trying to trick me into escaping my actual work for cheap hits of dopamine. Unless the article is a hit piece against my company, it's not urgent, and I can simply add it to a queue for next week.
It also helps to be intentional about how you consume the information. For my part, I carve out dedicated windows of time to read and learn every day. Again, when the timer stops, the consumption stops, and I'm back to work.
@channingallen was kind of expecting an insightful comment from you on this ..
I like your approach here (radical intentionality).
The challenge that I am facing mostly is with stopping at the intended time, cause some times I feel like I want to finish this piece of content on one go and it drags me out of the expected time window ..
How do you deal with such temptation? or do you plan the content to match the time slot during your planning window upfront ..
In general I allow myself a little wiggle room here. But if I have important stuff to get to or if I've found myself really low in self-control lately I'll use various pattern interrupts for stopping myself.
For example, I might preschedule a website blocker like Freedom (or StayFocusd, etc. etc.) to kill my internet at the time I intend to move on to the next task. Of course if it's a book I'm reading, this only works if I'm reading a book on the web, e.g. via Google Books — which is my e-reader of choice for just this reason. I've got other tricks too, but it would take more time to explain them than I have now.
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Information overload is everywhere, I think nowadays everybody fights for our attention. To combat this I have taken a proactive strategy and every once in a while I go through my email and start unsubscribing from everything I haven't read in a while. And for the things I do read I use apps that help me remember (explained further).
My take is that there is a huge amount of interesting things to read, but it is more profitable (personally speaking) to go through less stuff and implementing what I learn than reading a whole lot and not having time to implement anything I learn.
For keeping records, everything I want lo read I save it in instapaper so I can read later if I want. For books they all go in kindle, not physical anymore. And both kindle and instapaper are synced with readwise. This last app sends me emails everyday with highlights I've made in any reading to help me remember.
Solid workflow ..
I like how you put this out ..
Thanks @Linkology!
I have been writing to 20,000 subscribers every week at Micro SaaS Idea and I believe that to create good content, you need to consume good content.
That's why I have a few sources that I bookmarked and I don't allow random sources unless the article is a big hit in the news. Instead of reading the full article at once at the same time, I add the link to a dummy Telegram group (sending to myself) and everyday while I am resting, having casual walk time - I go over all the links and delete the links once read.
If a link stays there without being read for the whole week, I simple delete that because it might not be a priority at all.
Not the best, but works best for solo founders who has a lot of content to consume.
I liked the telegram trick for managing the consumption backlog, will give that a shot ..
I deal with information overload all the time. As a result, I've become rather good at spotting information that is of value to me now, and ignoring the rest. I've also had to remind myself repeatedly that making a decision in an acceptable time-frame is more important than making the perfect decision based on full analysis of all available information. Intuition and gut feelings are powerful, but you need to be able to trust them.
I used to get worried about missing important things. Now, I simply accept that yes, I will miss things that could have been useful or prevented big mistakes, and that's okay. I do the best with what I have and what I know, knowing that taking action and learning is better than getting stuck in analysis paralysis.
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