Listening to the end of Renée DiResta’s book and she is talking about how information is effectively infinite at this point but attention is a finite resource. Attention, by this logic, is at risk of being entirely consumed by a glut of information.

But what if we thought of information as the resource to be consumed by attention? How would that change our approach to all of this?

I’m sure people smarter than I have thought about this, but it seems to me that by talking about information consuming and exhausting our intention, we are relegating our attention—and therefore ourselves—to a passive role.