These filters are there to make information relevant, to allow you to utilize data into a different form, perhaps a blog post or a mental footnote to be retrieved when needed. However, sometimes there’s just too much information and too little time.
If you’re a blogger or web worker, you might be subscribing a large amount of blogs in order to find content ideas or acquire knowledge. When you’re plugged into the information stream for many hours a day, it is not uncommon to feel fatigued. The end result of is that you either procrastinate on reading/learning or dive too fast through information to absorb it fully.
I’ve noticed that sometimes I don’t read everything that shows up in my RSS feed reader and even if I do, I don’t peruse the entire article or pause to think more about what the author has written (which is an excellent way to appreciate new ideas). Why? Because there’s just too much information to process and a limited amount of time/attention.
The pressure is always there to make use of whatever content is out there. You need to read fast and use a piece of news to write a blog post. You need to keep up with what’s happening in the industry in order to make yourself competitively attractive as a freelancer/business. How do you make sure that information is consistently useful without tiring yourself out?
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If you’re a blogger or web worker, you might be subscribing a large amount of blogs in order to find content ideas or acquire knowledge. When you’re plugged into the information stream for many hours a day, it is not uncommon to feel fatigued. The end result of is that you either procrastinate on reading/learning or dive too fast through information to absorb it fully.
I’ve noticed that sometimes I don’t read everything that shows up in my RSS feed reader and even if I do, I don’t peruse the entire article or pause to think more about what the author has written (which is an excellent way to appreciate new ideas). Why? Because there’s just too much information to process and a limited amount of time/attention.
The pressure is always there to make use of whatever content is out there. You need to read fast and use a piece of news to write a blog post. You need to keep up with what’s happening in the industry in order to make yourself competitively attractive as a freelancer/business. How do you make sure that information is consistently useful without tiring yourself out?
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