How I’m Learning to Navigate Information Overload

I was going crazy with so much content everywhere

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New Tab, Search. Right-click, open in New Tab. Open New Tab…Open New Tab…

And then before you know it, you have 15 new tabs open and you have no idea where to begin and what to read. Either you spend the next 3 hours reading everything you’ve opened or you get frustrated and close them all.

If you’re the former, I salute you. If you’re the latter (like me), then you lose it all.

While none of this new, what is different is that we’re spending more & more time on our computers because there’s more and more content to sift through out there. Five years ago, if you wanted to look up say, Star Wars, you’d get 10 websites. Now you’d probably get 50 sites+ FB posts + Twitter + Medium Articles, not to mention Pinterest that sort of aggregates all of this. (I know the statistics is not accurate, but you get the idea.)

And now, with all this content, how do you know which is worth reading and which is not. You really can’t, until you actually read the content through.

There’s So Much to Read yet, So Little Time

Right, but that’s not all we have read.