How To Read Less Tidings Simply Hold Out To A Greater Extent Than Informed, According To A Futurist

Our quondam pal, the DIKW pyramid comes into play here.
(data>information>knowledge>wisdom)

From Quartz, March 6:

You mightiness recollect someone who gets paid to predict the hereafter would move mad for gadgets in addition to forever spouting off on social media. But you’d move wrong. Writer in addition to futurist Richard Watson may learn London line concern students in addition to Silicon Valley tech companies how to recollect almost crafting tools for tomorrow, but he’s non fifty-fifty on Twitter.

What’s more, Watson doesn’t actually follow the word inward whatever conventional way. He reads sun newspapers, inward print, retrospectively. He’s non trying to grab upwardly but to banking concern fit in addition to run across which of the many headlines turned out to move relevant a few weeks or a calendar month later. In other words, Watson is neutral about electrical flow events. He’s placing whatever given 2nd inward a much greater context than the hateful solar daytime or the week. Watson’s scale is grand in addition to includes all of human history in addition to its possible futures. In this real long view, nada is such a large deal, although anything may larn relevant eventually.
Instead of focusing on what everyone is already talking about, Watson hunts downward unusual knowledge. He shared amongst Quartz his approach to creating a smart information filter—a cyberspace that captures what’s happening in addition to what actually matters without making y'all a slave to information of fleeting importance.

1. “Practice selective ignorance”
You can’t read or recollect almost everything, thus choke on that inward withdraw heed when choosing materials in addition to pick character over quantity, in addition to seek to create a broad context. In other words, triangulate betwixt breadth in addition to depth. The to a greater extent than information is available, the less nosotros tend to digest, in addition to people are increasingly tuning out fifty-fifty acre they consume, thus it makes feel to eat less in addition to improve data.

2. “Burst the bubble”
Watson advises that nosotros randomly pick upwardly books in addition to magazines, in addition to strike upwardly conversations amongst strangers. These random acts of involvement inward strangers in addition to unusual communications intermission your information consumption routines in addition to expose y'all to unique insights.

3. Find the “tall poppies”
The futurist advises that each of us cultivate a network of curious in addition to remarkable people who are hungry for interesting information in addition to tin guide our thinking. Such remarkable characters are called “tall poppies” inward some companies, in addition to Watson believes collecting these human blooms drives success....

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I know some curious people but nosotros mightiness conduct hold a definitional work here.
On the other manus nosotros choke on rail of predictions inward all style of things inward an endeavor to position the folks who mightiness conduct hold some stair out of what figurer modelers telephone phone science which but mayhap mightiness move exploitable inward markets.
—spellcheck has a work amongst definitional but here's the OED: Definition of definitional

Somehow related:
"Crowds aren’t every bit smart every bit nosotros thought, since some people know to a greater extent than than others. H5N1 unproblematic play tricks tin discovery the ones y'all want"

"How to Speed Read the Internet"

1. Low latency machine-readable information feeds.
2. Employees
3. Today's link

From Inverse:...

Reading Online in addition to the Brain 

You Have Time Enough To Do Anything, You Don't Have Time Enough to Do Everything

That was the counsel of i of my mentors, many years ago. I've mentioned it a pair times.*
In i of her recent posts on her personal spider web log the FT's Izabella Kaminska commented en passant on keeping upwardly amongst the menses of information. It tin seem overwhelming at times but it's pretty much the essence of the Information Age.

The thing to practise is avoid wasting the fourth dimension y'all conduct hold in addition to that agency employing a hit of hacks: From paying people to pre-screen what y'all focus on to constantly bespeak yourself if the undertaking at manus is the highest value purpose of your time. It's non piece of cake in addition to it does accept some effort because the vogue of the universe is towards entropy in addition to people are lazy but it does non kill i to absorb large amounts of information in addition to convert the information into cognition in addition to hopefully wisdom.

From Dizzynomics...

Does Your Career Entail Reading H5N1 Large Volume Of Not Very Interesting Material? Here's a Simple Hack To Speed The Job Along
So You've Rewired Your Brain To The Point You Can't Read H5N1 Book. Idiot

TL;DR

(kidding)

Probably related:

You Aren't Imagining It: People Are Getting Dumber

"Were the Victorians cleverer than us? The refuse inward full general intelligence estimated from a meta-analysis of the slowing of unproblematic reaction time"

Climateer Line of the Day: Mental Entropy Edition

Thanks, I think, to a reader.

"I would move willing to wager that if an average citizen from Athens of grand BC were to look of a abrupt amidst us, he or she would move amidst the brightest in addition to most intellectually move of our colleagues in addition to companions. We would move surprised yesteryear our time-visitor’s memory, broad hit of ideas in addition to clear-sighted persuasion of of import issues. I would also guess that he or she would move amidst the most emotionally stable of our friends in addition to colleagues."...

The Case for Less: Is Abundance Really the Solution to Our Problems?

The 2 examples of the work amongst abundance that the writer uses are each inward their ain way incorrect.
On obesity the work is non just the availability of inexpensive high calorie food, it is that what passes for nutrient actually isn't. The manufactured/processed stuff that lines the grocery aisles is almost every bit closed to nutrient every bit masturbation is to sex.

The 2nd example, information overload, is but silly. There may move a firehose of of information coming at y'all but beingness overloaded yesteryear it is a selection in addition to a failure to displace upwardly the DIKW pyramid.

H5N1 few years agone Barry Ritholtz had a simple, straightforward post service on the topic: "Intelligence Hierarchy: Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom".

Here's some other way to hold off at it:

Getting stuck at the base of operations of the pyramid or off on the left side of the menses nautical chart is your ain damn fault....