Posts Tagged ‘information’

Information Pollution Alert! Living with Data Smog

We are a nation awash in data smog. This is more than just information overload -- it's not just that there's too much information out there for one person to adequately encompass, it's that there's too much data out there to even make out the information clearly, let alone to evaluate and act on that information.What's worse is that unlike normal smog, which is the unintentional byproduct of our need… Continue reading

November 10 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: bias, data-smog, filter, information, information-overload, news, science, truth | 12 comments»

Recognize Excellence to Make a Difference

It was Monday, December 29 and I wasn't happy. I had spent part of the morning at home working on odds and ends and another part of the morning at the office working on a book review and a few other things. I was in a funk because I'd forgotten to answer an email from a friend and mentor asking about having lunch today, I had a billion little things… Continue reading

February 23 2009 | By Art | Tagged: charity, criticism, feedback, giving, information | 1 comment»

Speed Reading Successfully: A Starting Point

There are more books and other written works today than there have ever been before. Tomorrow will be a record-setting day, just as will be each day afterward. It's impossible to read everything ever written, but the number of words we're expected to take in keep going up just the same. That means that speed reading is a pretty good tool to have in your personal arsenal.Speed reading isn't… Continue reading

January 30 2009 | By Thursday | Tagged: information, speed-reading | 23 comments»

Toward a New Vision of Productivity, Part 5: Drowning in Information

This is the fifth part of a 12-part series I will be posting into January 2009, examining the current understanding of productivity and where the concept might be heading in the future. I invite Lifehack’s readers to be an

January 2 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: attention, career, entertainment, information, information-overload, meaning, tim_ferriss, work | 11 comments»

Share Your Secrets to Be The Change

In any field with stuff worth learning, knowledge-hoarding is shamefully rampant. Have you ever asked someone you admired about how they made something you’re curious about, only to be rebuffed that “It’s a secret”? It’s happened to me 100s of times, and still, I press on to other sources.After all, there may be magic in mystery, but that doesn’t mean you need to be a congested… Continue reading

July 10 2008 | By Torley | Tagged: information, knowledge, secret, share, spread, viral, wealth, word-of-mouth | 9 comments»

4 Tech Tips to Keep Ahead of the Game for New Entrepreneurs

Thinking about starting a business or trying to make some cash out of the web? Technology can enable people and it can just as easily distract. We've got a few tips for you to consider to cut down on those distractions and costs and get more done, more efficiently and more effectively.These tips all center on one thing: technology, whether it involves a specific device or just the way… Continue reading

June 19 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: business, entrepreneur, gps, information, rss, skype, u, virtual assistant | 9 comments»

Following Email Etiquette

In Simplifying Your Information Intake, we looked at strategies to reduce the amount of email you need to deal with, and how to deal with what's left much faster. Anyone who undertakes the task of clearing out their inbox for good and getting a handle on their email habits inevitably discovers that the biggest reason email is plaguing so much of their time is the amount of unnecessary… Continue reading

April 16 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: email, etiquette, information, organization | 13 comments»

Are You Lifehacking Too Much?

Nick Cernis of Put Things Off recently declared that productivity is dead. He said that “our obsession with ‘productivity’ is getting in the way of our lives.” Nick started out by saying that the productivity industry is out of control, and that it’s making us less efficient, not more. I agree with Nick, and I can tell you why the productivity industry is like that: it’s about… Continue reading

April 14 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: action, gtd, implementation, information, motivation, systems | 12 comments»

Go on a High-Information Diet

Everywhere you turn these days people are complaining about too much information. The phrase "information overload" gets more than 1.5 million hits on Google. (This post makes it one more!) Everyone seems to think that if they could just reduce the flow of information into their lives, everything would be all better. They could finally relax and take a minute to catch up.My advice is the opposite: you don't… Continue reading

March 19 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: email, information, input, Management, rss | 32 comments»

Beyond Test Taking: Learning to Handle Information

I read lots of books. I follow several blogs. I take classes. I've learned enough new information I want to incorporate into my work that I know I haven’t got a chance of remembering it all. There have been times that all that information consumption has felt like a waste, because the human brain just isn’t built to remember so many details and act on them. Not just a… Continue reading

March 18 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: information, learning, memory | 7 comments»

Simplifying Your Information Intake

Productivity. We spend more time reading about it, talking about it, writing about it, thinking about it than actually making it happen. We complicate it with a disjointed system of hacks that don’t really work well together, then we decide to simplify it; every year, every month, it’s a vicious cycle for those of us addicted to the cool-aid of productivity and lifehacking that streams forth from the feed… Continue reading

March 7 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: email, feedreader, information, processing, rss | 15 comments»

My Struggles With Email Triage

I enjoy information, probably more than I should. I’ve managed to find a career path where information really is money — if I can break a story or create a new angle on it, I can eat at the end of the day. I’m constantly on the look out for new information that I can use. I get emails about all sorts of things, follow almost 300 blogs and… Continue reading

February 14 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: email, information, overload, Productivity, rss | 26 comments»

Dealing with Information Overload

In a world full of information we seem to be constantly toggling between managing all the new impressions we get on a daily basis and feeling totally overwhelmed by information overload. With the arrival of the Internet we were told that things would become easier - less paper clutter to worry about and more time to enjoy life.But this isn't so, as we've all found out in recent years… Continue reading

January 31 2008 | By Monika | Tagged: information, Management, mind, organization, Productivity | 27 comments»

Eight Tips to Find Your Information Oasis

The Internet Age allows you to get whatever information you want, as much as you want it. This, however, may do you more harm than good. The reason is simple: there is usually far too much noise in the information we consume. It becomes increasingly difficult to get the gems out of it, and it takes a lot of time and energy to deal with. Besides, increasing noise means… Continue reading

August 22 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: effectiveness, information, prioritization, Productivity, reading, tips | 20 comments»

How to Ace Your Finals Without Studying

A smart productivity blogger, Scott H Young, shows you a way on getting good marks on your final exams without studying? Sounds like a pipe dream? He proves it is not.He states there is a learning style called holistic learning, which is an opposite approach to learning by memorizing and practicing by repetition and force (compartmentalized learning):Holistic learning takes an opposite approach. Learning holistically is not done by trying… Continue reading

March 27 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: book, exam, information, learning, studying | no comments»

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