How Much Is Enough?

Merlin Mann contributed a timely essay titled Enough to Seth Godin’s What Matters Now project. The brief but important piece compares overeating with our modern dilemma of information overload / infobesity. He asks the important question – how do we know when we’ve had enough?

Mann writes:

What happened? How’d I miss when I’d had enough?

I wonder the same thing about folks who check for new email every 5 minutes, follow 5,000 people on Twitter, or try to do anything sane with 500 RSS feeds.

Some graze unlimited bowls of information by choice. Others claim it’s a necessity of remaining employed, landing sales, or “staying in the loop.” Could be. What about you?

43 Folders: “Enough”