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During his presentation, Clay Shirky stated that there is not such thing as information overload, only filter failure. Briggs’s Chapter 9 “Data-Driven Journalism and digitizing your life” addresses the impact that onslaught of information has on most people.
This chapter was very useful because it focused on ways of utilizing technology to improve your own productivity.
The chapter listed a variety of useful tips such as how and why one should organize their email, picking the productivity tools that are right for you, and how to bring order to your work.
It urges readers to leverage existing resources to get the most out of their data and this chapter explains how to do just that.