On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Jon Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Given that the highest costs are in the absorption of the content > itself (reading/listening/watching), it probably makes sense to > put a heavy emphasis on how to get stuff into your brain faster. > The key to enjoying an unlimited buffet is not to eat faster, but to choose carefully what you want to eat. (As tricks go 150% speed playback isn't bad, I use it too, but at the end of the day it's good for finding the interesting stuff, not for consuming it.) http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=herbert+simon+attention+economy Herb Simon's research on the attention economy was largely ignored by all except by marketers who've ever since engineered advertisements for maximum attention grab. There's social awareness of the ills of spendthrifts and gluttons, yet we spend our attention with abandon and consume every piece of information in sight as if there's no harm in it. I imagine my mind as having three roughly equal sized channels. One I use for my day job, one I to pursue my passion or interest of the moment, and the last I use for all the random tasks of life. At the end of the day I'm interested in doing many things, but without some rule of thumb assessment of my capacities I overcommit and under-deliver. Cheeni
