TechLifeGuide

Sometimes it's a rational choice to be difficult.

It is in fact a universal law that you can enjoy as much freedom as you can take responsibility.

Whether you want to be different or prefer mediocrity depends on the current environment.

Trust is something you have to work hard to create.

Don't go for whimsy, go for the middle of the road.

After billions of years of evolution by nature, every creature now alive on Earth is a success story. They are all immensely exciting They are all immensely exciting solutions.

Every day, we face a variety of information from diverse sources, different contexts, and in numerous forms. It might be an article on Quora, a comment on Twitter, a piece of advice from your boss, an excerpt from a Kindle book, a subway poster, a snippet of music from a podcast, a thought that pops into your head, and so on.

So, can you manage to capture any piece of valuable information, regardless of its form, type, or medium, quickly and cost-effectively, and transform it into your own knowledge asset?

Indeed, with the advancement of technology, information organization is becoming less critical because powerful search capabilities enable us to easily locate information collected even without any categorization. Therefore, for novices in information management, the most cost-effective skill is the “information capture ability.”

You need to develop a long-term sense of where the 'baseline' of popular perception is.

These are a few uses that yield productivity value.

I particularly like a term called “digital literacy”. Mark Hurst, the proposer of the “user experience” concept and best-selling author, refers to it as “productivity in the era of information overload”. There’s a very classic statement in his book:

People are more inclined to attribute personal failures to external causes, and the explosion of information and rapidly changing technology become convenient excuses. Only by stripping off this cloak of “excuse” and returning information and technology to their roles as tools can their power be fully utilized for human use.

To put it more bluntly, the harsh truth about information anxiety is: it’s not just about technology, tools, and the internet, ultimately it boils down to the individual’s lack of information management capabilities.