Building a Second Brain - A Solution to Information Overload?

It sounds like what building a second brain does is it changes how you consume things, and through that, then becomes a solution to information overload. Can you talk about that? Cause so many of us feel overwhelmed by all our twitter feeds, our facebook feets, all the emales that we get, all the information in the world. So it sounds like your saying that we still want to be consuming, but we wants to be consuming through the lens of producing. Yes, it changes when you know you're going to produce something, everything about how you consume changes. You're more discerning. You have higher standards. And i think it it has to do with this feedback loop when