9. “Thinking about
information overload
isn’t accurately
describing the
problem. Thinking
about filter failure is.”
Clay Shirky
New York University
new media professor,
writer, and consultant
10. The age of
adaptation
“The need to constantly adapt is
the new reality for many workers.”
Serial mastery
These workers “are often left to
figure out for themselves what new
skills will make them more
valuable, or just keep them from
obsolescence.”
27. “Everything that happens in our lives –
every misfortune, every slight, every
loss, every joy, every surprise, every
happy accident – is a teacher, and life is
a giant classroom.”
-- Arianna Huffington
Well, in the simplest terms, as Tom Hood says, we must keep our L greater than C. We must out-learn the pace of change.
But again, easier said than done, right? How do we learn in an era when we’re facing more change, more chaos, more information from more sources than ever?
In my mind, it comes down to two things:
The first is better information.
Consider this, from Google CEO Eric Schmidt:
“Between the dawn of civilization through 2003, there were just five exabytes of information created. That much information is now created every two days, and the pace is increasing.“
Information: And I’m not talking about content. I’m talking about content that matters to you. That old cliché “Content is King?” Wrong. Today, as Steven Rosenbaum says, “Content curation is king.” Being able to find valuable, relevant content and add context to it.
John Spence, managing partner at John Spence LLC: Used to be that knowledge was power; now sharing knowledge is power. (By the way, I wasn’t at that conference when Spence said that. I read that quote on Twitter, following the conference hashtag. A perfect example of using my personal knowledge network.)