If information overload was the issue, you’d walk into a library and die. First time you surf the web, you’d just blow up. Actually, first time you’d walk through nature you’d blow up. That’s why nature is so relaxing, it is because of the infinite variety of information that it feeds your brain. Actually you go weird when you get in a room with no information : it’s called sensory deprivation. Your brain relaxes with the more horizons it can range in, that will map to the sophistication of whatever that computer is in there. The issue is potential meaning overload. Each one of those emails you’re getting has potentially a snake or a berry or something inside it, but it not evident when you first see that email. That’s the problem. You start to add all the potential meanings. What if you walk into nature and anything could eat you, bite you. You would be “I’m not going out there”.
— David Allen speaks on GTD and the two keys to sustaining a healthy life and work style (January 2nd, 2008)
David Allen est un formidable orateur tant sur le fond que sur la forme. 45 minutes de discours, c’est long. Mais elles valent la peine ! By the way, il s’exprime devant des Googlers et le transcript est de moi.
David Allen est un formidable orateur tant sur le fond que sur la forme. 45 minutes de discours, c’est long. Mais elles valent la peine ! By the way, il s’exprime devant des Googlers et le transcript est de moi.