Firehoses

Reminder: drinking from a firehose is not a useful way to stay hydrated.

We know this.

Yet we engage with firehoses all the time. News feeds, social media, streaming services, online shopping — even libraries and museums.

Everywhere, there’s more content than we could possibly engage with or consume … even in a thousand lifetimes.

So we take care. We pick and choose. We remind ourselves that we’ll never get to all of it.

Simply: we curate our inputs.

Firehoses will do what they do. But we get to choose how we engage.