Axiomtheoreticalv1
Information and attention have an inverse relationship: a
Information and attention have an inverse relationship: a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Why This Is an Axiom
This is Herbert Simon's foundational theoretical insight from 1971. It's a framework claim about the relationship between information abundance and cognitive resources that the curriculum takes as axiomatic and cannot be derived from other principles.
Source Lessons
L-0857
Information overload recovery
When overwhelmed declare information bankruptcy and start fresh with curated sources.
L-0947
Subordinate non-bottlenecks
Adjust other parts of your system to support the bottleneck rather than running at their own pace.
L-0954
Information bottlenecks
When you cannot get the information you need to proceed the information flow is the constraint.