In a recent blog post, Steve Haragdon commented that there is just so much too much information on the Internet.  How do you cope with it all? I liked his solution:

I will also say that on a personal level, when people ask me the answer to content overload, I tell them (counter-intuitively) that it is to produce more content. Because it is in the act of our becoming a creator that our relationship with content changes, and we become more engaged and more capable at the same time. In a world of overwhelming content, we must swim with the current or tide (enough with water analogies!).

What he describes is why I blog. In writing about what I’m working with, I help sort out the content in my head and (hopefully) might actually help a couple of other people to understand it as well. Writing about information, and thereby creating more information, helps sort out the information we already have.

Of course, there is a law of diminishing returns there. If you’re writing about something, or even writing about someone writing about something (as I’m doing now), you’re creating less really useful material than if you made something yourself.

Even so, thinking about thinking does have its purpose. I think.