This week on No Sidebar, host Brian Gardner responds to an article written by Paul Jarvis, entitled “On becoming digital hoarders.”
Our yearning to find information that will somehow magically fill some void in our life continually leaves us unsatisfied.
We are promised endlessly how to make our lives better, how to be more productive, and how to get what we want.
But the reality, and main takeaway from Paul’s article, is at some point, we need to take off the training wheels of acquiring knowledge and ride the bike of applying that knowledge …
In this 11-minute episode of No Sidebar, host Brian Gardner discusses:
- The fascination with list articles
- Our yearning to find the magical solution
- Why inspirational words often fall flat
- How productivity articles trap us
- Why life hacks are often just a crutch
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