How to Survive in a World of Information Overload

Pursuing knowledge is great until it becomes a distraction

Nir Eyal
Forge
Published in
6 min readSep 29, 2021

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We live in a world of too much information, and it’s nothing less than a blessing.

Throughout most of human history, access to knowledge was limited. Power equated to how much information you had access to. Kings built great libraries, and texts were rare…

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Nir Eyal
Forge
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