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Saturday, August 04, 2007
new signature file quote candidate: especially resonant for bloggers?
"The ultimate scarce resource in life is the willingness of other people to pay attention to us." -- Robert Frank, Falling Behind, p. vii.
""...in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it" (Simon 1971, p. 40-41).
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""...in an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it" (Simon 1971, p. 40-41).
That's a great quote. Do you have some kind of fabulously organized note system?
Do you have some kind of fabulously organized note system?
The internet! In conjunction with a memory that's really only good for remembering bits and pieces of stuff like this.
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