Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till it’s gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
– Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi
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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.”
Herbert Simon, ‘Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World’ in Martin Greenberger (ed.) Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest (1971)
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Our minds are paved with the designs of others:
Social media
Influencers
Podcasters
Politicians
Intellectuals
Algorithms
How do we know what we think anymore?
Our minds are the parking lots of other people’s information.
Let’s protect the paradise of our minds.
Be a conservationist of the wilderness of our thoughts.
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