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Book excerpt / evidence document (house oversight committee)
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This document appears to be a page from a self-help or business book (textually consistent with Tim Ferriss's *The 4-Hour Workweek*) included in a House Oversight Committee discovery batch (Bates stamp HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013850). The text discusses the concept of 'Cultivating Selective Ignorance' and a 'low-information diet,' advocating for reduced consumption of news and email to increase productivity. There is no direct mention of Jeffrey Epstein, his associates, or specific criminal activities in the visible text of this specific page.
People (4)
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| Herbert Simon | Quoted Source |
Recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and A.M. Turing Award, quoted regarding information consumption.
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| Albert Einstein | Quoted Source |
Quoted regarding reading habits and creative pursuits.
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Quoted Source |
Quoted regarding the wisdom of ignorance.
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First-person narrator discussing 'low-information diet,' 'lifestyle design,' and personal habits regarding news and e...
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| Name | Type | Context |
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013850'.
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| Pepsi |
Mentioned in the context of buying a Diet Pepsi.
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Location where the narrator bought a newspaper to get a discount on a Pepsi.
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Key Quotes (7)
"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients."Source
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits."Source
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"I never watch the news and have bought one single newspaper in the last five years..."Source
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"I usually check business e-mail for about an hour each Monday, and I never check voicemail when abroad."Source
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"Problems, as a rule, solve themselves or disappear if you remove yourself as an information bottleneck and empower others."Source
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"From this point forward, I’m going to propose that you develop an uncanny ability to be selectively ignorant."Source
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"The first step is to develop and maintain a low-information diet."Source
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
—HERBERT SIMON, recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics⁸ and the A.M. Turing Award, the “Nobel Prize of Computer Science”
—HERBERT SIMON, recipient of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics⁸ and the A.M. Turing Award, the “Nobel Prize of Computer Science”
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
—ALBERT EINSTEIN
—ALBERT EINSTEIN
I hope you’re sitting down. Take that sandwich out of your mouth so you don’t choke. Cover the baby’s ears. I’m going to tell you something that upsets a lot of people.
I never watch the news and have bought one single newspaper in the last five years, in Stansted Airport in London, and only because it gave me a discount on a Diet Pepsi.
I would claim to be Amish, but last time I checked, Pepsi wasn’t on the menu.
How obscene! I call myself an informed and responsible citizen? How do I stay up-to-date with current affairs? I’ll answer all of that, but wait—it gets better. I usually check business e-mail for about an hour each Monday, and I never check voicemail when abroad. Never ever.
But what if someone has an emergency? It doesn’t happen. My contacts now know that I don’t respond to emergencies, so the emergencies somehow don’t exist or don’t come to me. Problems, as a rule, solve themselves or disappear if you remove yourself as an information bottleneck and empower others.
I never watch the news and have bought one single newspaper in the last five years, in Stansted Airport in London, and only because it gave me a discount on a Diet Pepsi.
I would claim to be Amish, but last time I checked, Pepsi wasn’t on the menu.
How obscene! I call myself an informed and responsible citizen? How do I stay up-to-date with current affairs? I’ll answer all of that, but wait—it gets better. I usually check business e-mail for about an hour each Monday, and I never check voicemail when abroad. Never ever.
But what if someone has an emergency? It doesn’t happen. My contacts now know that I don’t respond to emergencies, so the emergencies somehow don’t exist or don’t come to me. Problems, as a rule, solve themselves or disappear if you remove yourself as an information bottleneck and empower others.
Cultivating Selective Ignorance
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
—RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803–1882)
—RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803–1882)
From this point forward, I’m going to propose that you develop an uncanny ability to be selectively ignorant. Ignorance may be bliss, but it is also practical. It is imperative that you learn to ignore or redirect all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable. Most are all three.
The first step is to develop and maintain a low-information diet. Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.
Lifestyle design is based on massive action—output. Increased output necessitates decreased input. Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn’t at least two of the four.
The first step is to develop and maintain a low-information diet. Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.
Lifestyle design is based on massive action—output. Increased output necessitates decreased input. Most information is time-consuming, negative, irrelevant to your goals, and outside of your influence. I challenge you to look at whatever you read or watched today and tell me that it wasn’t at least two of the four.
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