In college and med school, I’d check out hundreds of library books. When it came time to return the books at the end of the year, I’d lug them back to the library in boxes. Needless to say, I hadn’t read most of them.
Nowadays, I’ve given myself a rule at the library: check out one book at a time. This rule has enabled me to lug fewer books back and forth, and actually read the book I check out.
But now I also subscribe to dozens of email newsletters. Way more than I have time to read. I forward newsletters I find interesting to Evernote, to be read someday, I tell myself. Like those library books in my room, they mostly just sit there.
It strikes me that nowadays, information is abundant, but my bandwidth is not. I want to let go of my info-hoarding tendency when it comes up, so that I can focus on the few things that matter.
This is a note to self.
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