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The problem is not too much junk but too many worthwhile things competing for your time. You cannot do it all, so treat your to-read pile like a river: pluck a few items, don’t try to empty it. Accepting this frees you from guilt and forces you to choose what matters most.
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And so, for example, the reading recommendations I encounter via Twitter are much more tailored to my concerns than those I might encounter via a newspaper, because I choose who I follow on Twitter; it’s like having a thousand assistants scouring the infoverse for whatever might pique my interest. My challenge, information-wise, isn’t about finding a needle in a haystack. It’s that I’m confronted on a daily basis, in Carr’s words, by “haystack-sized piles of needles.”
La paradoja de cultivar tu feed para cuidar tu dieta digital es que luego tienes demasiadas cosas interesantes que leer… first world problems.
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To return to information overload: this means treating your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it).
Potente metáfora para enfrentarse a la ansiedad que genera la voracidad intelectual en tiempos de feeds algorítmicos.