Information overload is everywhere, from non-stop news to rat-a-tat email inboxes. At the receiving end of this deluge of verbiage is the human brain—your brain— metaphorically endowed with a vacuum ...

A recent study by psychologists claims that meditation and mindfulness practices are excellent tools for improving our awareness and regulating our emotions. These practices help us develop the ...

In today’s high-speed digital world it is not unusual for business and project managers to have multiple email, social media (Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook) and text messaging accounts — for ...

One of this morning's opening sessions at Supernova started with a workshop on the "personal infosphere," which has something to do managing information overload. I wrote about the overload of social ...

Given the avalanche of information from numerous avenues including e-mail, instant message and syndication feeds, corporate users could start to feel attention fatigue and companies may need to ...

Our brains are simply not equipped to handle all the information we’re trying to stuff into them. That’s the (paraphrased) sentiment of Dominican friar Vincent of Beauvais, a 13th-century monk, who ...