- 資訊爆炸/洪流的時代
- In the age of…
- Information abundance/overload
- Infinite information on the internet
- We all live in a consumption-oriented life. Fast consumption, constant consumption, more consumption.
- The internet has democratized access to information — but without commensurate wisdom in filtering it, more access often leads to more noise, not more signal.
- In the age of…
- “The Never-Ending Now” by David Perell
- The web collapses time, making everything feel immediate and equally urgent. We lose the ability to distinguish between what matters in the current moment and what matters in the long run.
- 數位焦慮 FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)
- Most of us only consume contents created…
- within the last 24 hours (e.g., news)
- recommended by the “For You” algorithm (e.g., YT videos, SM feeds)
- Functional Illiteracy
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Just-In-Case → Just-In-Time
- It’s not enough to use information for “something” — it needs to be immediate and important. If “no” on either count, don’t consume it. Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.
- Most “Just-In-Case” information sits in bookmark folders, read-it-later queues, and saved-for-later tabs — never to be seen again. Treating information as a resource to be “stockpiled” misunderstands its nature: information degrades in relevance over time.
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Reactive → Proactive
See: Human Sponges
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Develop the habit of asking yourself, “Will I definitely use this information for something immediate and important?” before consuming any content
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Shift from passive consumption (“What does the internet say?”) to active inquiry (“What am I curious about today? What do I genuinely want to understand?”).
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Proactive consumption means setting an intention before opening a feed, video, or article.
“The key is to stop foregrounding the tool — the stream — and learn instead to change our relationship to information, to cultivate a more mindful and intentional state of mind about when, why, and how we take things in.” — David Sax, The Revenge of Analog
- What question am I trying to answer?
- What problem am I trying to solve?
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Answer → Questions
- The internet is exceptional at giving you answers — but terrible at teaching you which questions are worth asking. In a world where ChatGPT, Google, and Wikipedia can surface an answer to almost anything in seconds, the scarce skill is no longer finding answers — it’s formulating the right questions.
- A good question cuts through the noise. Time spent refining your question is time spent sharpening your filter. If you don’t know what you’re looking for, every answer will seem relevant — and none will truly serve you.
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Fast, excessive consumption → Slow, gradual engagement
- Skimming replaces reading. Headlines replace articles. Clicks replace understanding.
- Speed is the enemy of depth. Slow reading. Slow watching. Slow thinking. Slow down.
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FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) → JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out)
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“Try to get to the bottom of things, not stay on top of things.”
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不要害怕錯過資訊，因為如果是真的很重要的資訊，它會再次出現在我們眼前
就跟手機來電一樣，如果真的很重要，對方會再打一次；如果沒有再次來電，代表沒有很重要。
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Practice strategic ignorance. Be selectively ignorant. Sometimes, choosing what to pay attention to and letting go of the rest is true bliss. 1
Ignorance is bliss. (無知便是福。)
“Ignore topics that drain your attention. Unfollow people that drain your energy. Abandon projects that drain your time. Do not keep up with it all. The more selectively ignorant you become, the more broadly knowledgeable you can be.” — James Clear
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JOMO is not about apathy — it’s about liberation. The freedom to say, “I don’t need to know that, and I’m okay with not knowing it.”
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The Laundry Cycle Mentality
- Think about the areas of your life where you are placing unnecessary pressure on yourself to have everything in a “completed” state, e.g., to-read pile (Read-It-Later → Never-Read-It).
- Perhaps that area is better viewed as a RIVER than as a BUCKET — as a dynamic cycle, not a static state.
- Your reading list, inbox, and watch-later queue are not tasks to be completed — they are streams to be sampled. Dip in, take what’s useful, and let the rest flow past.
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Build a note-taking habit and an idea-capturing system
- The act of writing something down in your own words forces comprehension. If you can’t explain it simply, you haven’t understood it yet.
- Cognitive Offload: instead of trying to hold everything in your head, trust the system to hold it for you. This frees mental bandwidth for higher-order thinking.
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Consume less. Reflect/Review or Create/Produce/Make/Build More.
- Embrace low-information-diet to avoid the “Mental Squeeze Point”
- Spend more time connecting dots (convergent exploiting) than you do collecting them (divergent exploring)
- Water your digital garden: regularly review and prune your notes. A neglected capture system becomes just another source of overwhelm.
- Strive for a balance between consuming and digesting information—because if you only take in content without truly processing it, you’re likely to forget most of what you encounter.
- If you decide to consume something:
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Consume what you are going to create
“The number of hours I spend consuming should never equal or exceed the number of hours I spend creating.” — Nicolas Cole, The Art and Business of Online Writing
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Mindset Shift: Consumer → Producer
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帶著「輸出」的前提去「輸入」（Writing Worth Reading）
當我吸收這些資訊/知識後，我要寫一篇可以公開發表的筆記或部落格文章！
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Only consume quality contents that have stood the test of time.
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Read fewer forecasts and more history. Study history to predict the future.
“History never repeats itself. Man always does.” — Voltaire
“Learn enough from history to respect one another’s delusions.” — Will Durant
“Reality will pay you back in equal proportion to your delusion.” — Will Smith
- It’s all just history repeating itself (Historic Recurrence).
- Humans tend to repeat the mistakes humans make.
- History provides the longest possible dataset for understanding human behavior. In a world obsessed with the new, the old becomes a genuine competitive advantage.
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“We are drowning in information but starved for wisdom.” — E. O. Wilson
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” — T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems 2
Knowledge is cumulative. Intelligence is selective. It’s a matter of efficiency versus effectiveness.
“To attain knowledge add things every day. To attain wisdom subtract things every day.” — Lao Tzu
- Information is raw, abundant, and cheap. Knowledge is processed, organized, and connected to experience. Wisdom is knowing which knowledge to apply, when, and why.
- The pipeline: Data → Information → Knowledge → Wisdom. Most of us stop at the first step — data consumption — and mistake it for the last.
- 批判 & 獨立思考的能力至關重要
