“She was told she had typhoid fever. Right away, as I still do today, I looked up the disease in medical books and read all about it.”
― "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
― "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
“Herbert Simon, an American economist and cognitive psychologist, wrote, “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention . . .”
― Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
― Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
“The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a theory but an activity. The result of philosophy is not a number of 'philosophical propositions', but to make propositions clear.”
― Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
“According to the New York Times, the average person’s daily consumption of information now adds up to a remarkable 34 gigabytes.1”
― Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
― Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
“we consume the equivalent of 174 full newspapers’ worth of content each and every day, five times higher than in 1986.”
― Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
― Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
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