overwhelm

Give your brain some breathing room so that you can start to generate your own signal, rather than regurgitating others'.

The sheer volume of information available for our immediate consumption is a modern conundrum. We have all the information we might ever need, and no time to absorb and make sense of it all. In moving from one op-ed to YouTube tutorial to ‘must-listen’ podcast, there is barely time for the dust to settle. Rarely do we sit and ruminate on the inputs, thus failing to convert them to effective outputs by incorporating them into our ways of being....