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Attention Management

12.10.09

Shooting at Information Overload: Right Target, Wrong Weapon Attention Management, Information Work, blog, interruption science | Comments Off
Tom Davenport’s “The Attention Economy” is the best information overload/attention management book I’ve read so far (despite several flaws). For that reason alone I avoided obvious, snarky rebuttal titles for this blog post such as “Why We Don’t Care What Davenport Thinks About Information Overload” or just “Why We Don’t Care About Tom Davenport”. But I don’t agree with his posting yesterday about “Why We Don’t Care About Information Overload“. Like a good writer, he summarizes his point best at the end: the next time you hear someone talking or read someone writing about information overload, save your own attention and tune ...