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The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption | Brain Pickings
Clay Johnson, best known for managing Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, wrote an AMAZING manifesto for making the most out of the 11 hours we spend consuming information everyday in a way that serves our intellectual, creative, and psychological well-being.
He builds on the analogy between food and information by arguing that just like we know we’re products of the food we eat, we must understand just how much we’re products of the information we consume — and consume accordingly. Yet the sheer amount of information available to us — 800,000 petabytes (a million gigabytes per petabyte) in the storage universe and 3.6 zettabytes (a million petabytes per zettabyte) consumed by American homes per day, expected to increase 44-fold by 2020 — is mind-boggling.
More info and excerpts at the link. I cannot wait to read this.
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