🧠 Reduce the noise, make space for progress

How successful people manage information

You are on-call and your pager is ringing every 5 minutes. There are dashboards with graphs everywhere. Every metric has a different color.

Not ideal, huh? I just described what you find on social media.

I’m not perfect and I don’t have the truth. But in this post, I’ll show you how I try to act like successful people I admire.

I am not proud of the fact that some of my e-mail goes unanswered. (…)
I am faced with a stark choice between being a bad correspondent and being a good novelist. I am trying to be a good novelist, and hoping that people will forgive me for being a bad correspondent. — Neal Stephenson

🧠 Your brain is a computer

Your brain stores and processes information. It’s a computer with its CPU, RAM, and hard drive.

Sadly, it’s single-threaded. You can only focus on one thing at a time.

But luckily, it’s asynchronous! Something you have thought before stays in the background and when an idea emerges, it comes to your mind

You have a limited amount of RAM available. It’s volatile…