Infobesity - How to Cope with the Overload of Information
summary
Claims that people make ~35,000 decisions a day and that 241 million emails are sent every minute frame a diagnostics-first approach; measured habits include average screen time ~6h58, 74 email checks/day and 566 task switches/day, and attention now shifts every 45 seconds. Concrete fixes include digital weight scale (20 questions scoring 0–100), Gmail with ~350 filters plus action/must labels and inbox-zero bookmarks, Chrome tab grouping, five–ten minute breaks lowering cortisol, a pull system for incoming info, and a team cognitive loadometer; Red Hat cuts 600 monthly mails to two newsletters and raises open rate to 77%.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 7:19Derren Brown: The Push
- 9:092 types of influence
- 10:57Luis von Ahn
- 14:40Infobesity
- 17:49Tools & practices
- 20:19Apps we regret
- 22:00Cognitive loadometer
- 23:17Push vs pull
- 29:51Information diet
- 34:34Obesity
- 37:15Time well spent
- 41:12Next steps
- 42:47How New Addictions are Destroying Us
- 43:05Outro
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