A deep dive into information overload and our choice to sink or swim.
Remember the days when we had the option of watching a television show (we had a choice of about four channels) OR reading something printed on paper? The simplicity of our former lives seems foreign compared to today’s barrage of information.
WTMI (Way Too Much Information) usually refers to sharing gross or socially inappropriate information in public. But what about the epidemic of Way Too Much (Acceptable and Appropriate) Information? I often get the sense we’re drowning in information overload.
We all jumped on the email bandwagon about 25 years ago (I would have been in my mid-30s). I opened my Facebook account in 2007, when it was nothing like the advertising, algorithmic beast it is today. Instagram and others followed… (Read full article on Substack)