How do I practice information fatigue?

The most direct way to practice information fatigue is through a focused exercise: Conduct an information cost audit. List every source you check daily or weekly: news sites, newsletters, social feeds, Slack channels, podcasts, group chats. For each, estimate the minutes per day you spend on it. Then answer three questions: (1) What decision have I made better in the last 30 days because of this source? (2) What would I miss if I stopped checking it for two weeks? (3) What could I do with that time instead? Any source that fails all three questions is noise you are paying for with attention. Remove or batch it.

Common pitfall: Believing that awareness equals understanding, and that more awareness means better decisions. The failure mode is building an identity around being "well-informed" while never converting information into insight, decision, or action. The person who reads everything but builds nothing has confused consumption with cognition.

This practice connects to Phase 7 (Signal vs Noise) — building it as a repeatable habit compounds over time.