What’s the flavour of the month, paparazzi & panditi? Or rather, considering the current attention span, the day (if that long).
Trying to pay attention to everything means not paying much attention to anything. Learning, in some psychological models, is a matter of filtration. To get anything real done is going to require changing from a no. 2 mesh to a number 14 considering the volume of data that are out there.
Damn I hope that better metadata & indexing is coming soon, the semantic web is proving quite elusive in practice.
There was a donkey exactly half-way between two exactly equal piles of hay: poor thing died of hunger in between since he couldn’t decide which one to go to… the perfect being the enemy of the good.
“Ancora imparo…” —Michelangelo {di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni {1475 – 1564 (“I am still learning”) & only about 87 at the time. One of the Supremes said something of the same ilk in his eighties, to the effect that he was still improving his mind.
Maslow’s hierarchy probably a good starting point for the info-triage©… What’s just about to bite me on the ass, then what’s going to ruin my day tomorrow, by next year same time … &c, &c, &c.
