I'm listening to a Churchill Club event Silicon Valley Fights Back Against the (Information) Monster it Created. 22:15 "I can decide if certain people send me too many messages that they declare important but I'm completely uninterested and I can stop listening to them. I can leave them in my pocket. I can leave them on my computer and walk away." "And your pocket fills up. The problem is we don't know how to contain ourselves and that makes it harder for us to filter given the present state of technology... Lotus Notes gives me a big blue (hehe) dot if the message is addressed to me." 23:41 "Is there an etiquette that gives us permission to say no?" "I have friends that IM me all times of the day and night and if I ignore them that's fine." "You have an expectation that someone will respond in a timely fashion ... dilutes the value of the network." 28:53 "I think there is an implicit social contract in that if I ask you a question and you don't answer that rude. I think generationally that's changing in that the younger you the less that might be the case." "Couple of Harvard Psychiatrists who have using the phrase Acquired Attention Deficit Disorder" 31:02 "Today we generated 60 billion emails five years ago we generated not even 60 billion emails in year ... half the estimated it has cost 1 billion dollars a year in throttled due to information overload"