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How information abundance creates learning paralysis

Every article I start reading reminds me of five other things I should be reading and I end up with thirty browser tabs and no actual knowledge.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The fear of missing information prevents the deep processing of any single piece of knowledge.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Shallow work and the attention economy?”

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