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A Better Information Diet (Ed Batista)

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To improve and maintain your capacity to get information, you have to understand how it comes to you. ~Andy Grove, 1983 [1] We monitor what we eat and drink, optimizing our diet for health and performance, not just enjoyment--and yet we can be heedless about what we read, watch, and listen to. Our information diet is often the result of accident or happenstance rather than thoughtful planning. Even when we do choose deliberately, the intent behind much of our media consumption is simply to soothe or distract ourselves, not to nourish or enrich. It's like having french fries for every meal. There are steps we can take to enjoy a better information diet, but if we want to do more than simply construct a set of rules that we might follow for a period of time and then abandon (as with so many diet plans), it's useful to start with four principles related to how our brains operate. 1. Ways of Thinking 2. Emotions Are Attention Magnets 3. The Narrative Engine 4. The Inevitability of Social C

A Better Information Diet - Ed Batista Skip to content A Better Information Diet May 14, 2019 PART I: HOW WE THINK To improve and maintain your capacity to get information, you have to understand how it comes to you. ~Andy Grove, 1983 [1] We monitor what we eat and drink, optimizing our diet for health and performance, not just enjoyment--and yet we can be heedless about what we read, watch, and listen to. Our information diet is often the result of accident or happenstance rather than thoughtful planning. Even when we do choose deliberately, the intent behind much of our media consumption is

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