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EP 481: Preservation in the Post-Information Age with Sari Azout

Oct 25, 2024
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ANECDOTE

Embracing Messy Knowledge Piles

  • Tara McMullen keeps track of ideas in messy piles rather than orderly systems.
  • She finds creativity in chaos despite trying other structured methods without lasting success.
INSIGHT

From Scarcity to Abundance

  • We have moved from an information age of scarcity to a post-information age of abundance.
  • The key challenge now is navigating and making sense of abundant information, not accessing it.
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Information Overload Is Ancient

  • Information overload has troubled humans since ancient times.
  • Early scholars like Aulus Gellius kept notes as literary storehouses to aid memory, similar to modern piles of ideas.
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