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A review by malachi_oneill
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
4.0
lots of interesting thoughts to contemplate.
one good one I liked was the concept of the information/action ratio.
with increasingly sophisticated forms of information, there is an increase in information that is directly inactionable. there's nothing we can do with it or about it.
this sense that we must know what's going on on the other side of the planet.
ask, "how does this information directly affect what I need to or can do right now in this moment?"
extremely helpful for filtering information and the ruthless daily curation of The Algorithm feed.
one good one I liked was the concept of the information/action ratio.
with increasingly sophisticated forms of information, there is an increase in information that is directly inactionable. there's nothing we can do with it or about it.
this sense that we must know what's going on on the other side of the planet.
ask, "how does this information directly affect what I need to or can do right now in this moment?"
extremely helpful for filtering information and the ruthless daily curation of The Algorithm feed.