What film directors can teach us about taming our news feeds and succeeding in IT

Christopher Guerin
Nov 4 · 7 min read

Feeds dominate how we acquire information today. Whether it’s professional news from Twitter and LinkedIn or project information from Slack, we’re all scrolling and scanning headlines, taking in more information than ever before.

The problem with feeds is they provide us with a false sense of understanding and further fragment our attention through constant notifications and alerts, making a true understanding of issues increasingly less common.

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Christopher Guerin

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I write about technology and its impact on work and life. I work for IBM Watson leading ecosystem strategy and market development efforts. Stories are my own.

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