The overload makes users less productive and more stressed; thus, there’s a need for some solution. Passively ignoring the problem won’t work, since bits are still heavy, even if we pretend not to notice.

Bit literacy means letting the bits go; anything else perpetuates the problem.

Bits have unique properties, then, that we can use to our advantage: they’re super-small, super-fast, easily acquired and created and copied and shared in near-infinite quantity, protected from the ravages of time, and free from...

It’s far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology.