Top Highlights

• Turn it the other way around and you see how absurd it is. Trying to deal with our relationship with information as though we are somehow digital machines is like trying to upgrade our computers by sitting them in fertilizer. We’re looking at the problem through the wrong lens.
• As a result, a healthy diet — knowing what to consume and what to avoid — has gone from being a luxury to mandatory for our longevity.
• And in return, we need to start formulating an information diet — what to consume and what to avoid — in this new world of information abundance. The first step is realizing that there is a choice involved.
• about our intake. It is very difficult, for example, to overconsume vegetables.
• The Huffington Post has turned content-creation on its head, using technology to figure out what it is that people want, and finding the fastest way to give it to them.