It's so passé to talk about information overload these days. Living awash in information and ideas is our constant state of operation it seems. Some days, I'm able to navigate these waters. I'm tuned in to the pieces that are relevant to me and am able to let the other things wash over me.
Other times, like how it's been lately, I feel like I'm drowning. There were so many great ideas and connections between thoughts during the IA Summit. I had no time to process all those things before jumping feet first into my next project. I'm now in sponge-mode doing discovery and trying to get up to speed on the intricacies of this organization. This morning I find myself at day two of Adaptive Path's MX: Managing Experience, conference. I'm now getting more ideas thrown my way.
Swimming in information and ideas is something that I love. But what I love more is when I'm able to take that sea and make sense out of it. That's the part that has been lacking recently. I need to make sure I give myself the time and space to reflect, before the tide recedes and these ideas are gone forever.