When critical thinking isn’t enough: to beat information overload, we need to learn ‘critical ignoring’

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This is Kei and Kazuki, founders of Glasp 👋 

We hand-picked 3 good articles for you to highlight this week. Hope they'll help you get new ideas and perspectives. (You can read this online!)

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📚 3 Good Articles for You

AI and The Burden of Knowledge
by Mario Gabriele (10 mins)

• The "burden of knowledge" indicates increasing knowledge base makes it harder for humans to contribute novel ideas.

• AI doesn't face this issue, continuously improving and potentially surpassing human understanding.

• As AI advances, humans may need to rely on AI's findings, creating a reliance on incomprehensible knowledge.

🔗 Glasp Community Highlights

When critical thinking isn’t enough: to beat information overload, we need to learn ‘critical ignoring’
by Ralph Hertwig, Anastasia Kozyreva, Sam Wineburg, and Stephan Lewandowsky (5 mins)

• The internet's overload of information necessitates new strategies beyond critical thinking due to increasing attention hijacking tactics by platforms.

• "Critical ignoring," deliberately choosing what to overlook, is suggested as a tool to manage this information abundance.

• Three strategies for critical ignoring include self-nudging, lateral reading, and the do-not-feed-the-trolls heuristic, which should be taught in schools for better digital world navigation.

🔗 Glasp Community Highlights

Self Improvement Is Actually Addictive — If You Have the Right Frame of Mind
by Neeramitra Reddy (4 mins)

• Self-improvement involves holistic growth with a purposeful reason, not just physical or productivity-oriented tasks.

• Dopamine regulation, through limiting addictive modern activities and focusing on quality actions, is key to maintaining motivation.

• Self-improvement is a personalized journey, dependent on individual perspectives and interests, with the constant being continuous improvement.

🔗 Glasp Community Highlights

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🐣 User’s Hatch

Here’s an insightful hatch by Eva Rtology

The Power of Thinking: Combining Imitation and Innovation

Hatch is a new feature that generates new ideas/articles by finding common points in two articles. Please check here to see how to use it.

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❤️ Gratitude

We found some people who mentioned Glasp in their articles and blogs, and we appreciate all the kindness!

• Thank you for taking the time to talk to us! Your feedback is insightful and helps us improve the product!

• We found that Glasp was featured in the articles below. Thank you for writing about Glasp!

  • AI writing challenges in education on Samsung Business Insights

  • Top 5 AI Tools Cooler Than ChatGPT on Analytics Insight

  • 11 Best AI Chrome Extensions for Developers on WeAreDevelopers

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Hope you enjoyed reading this newsletter!
See you next week ;)

Best,
Kei and Kazuki

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