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3 Tiny PKM-Themed Wisdom Snippets to Beat Digital and Analog Overwhelm

How cultivating curiosity can help tame the tangle

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Anna Havron gives us two principles to consider when determining whether to use digital or analog formats:

1. Purpose determines mode
2. Pleasure determines mode

We could add a third:

3. Distractibility determines mode

The question Anna was answering was (obviously) asked by someone who had the ability to use both digital and analog, and was looking for guidance when making the choice between them. It is not my intention to put one forward as superior to another.

We could, then, assume a fourth principle:

4. Ability determines mode

I recognise that discussing a choice between digital and analog tools is not relevant to people with, for example, vision or motor impairment, but perhaps the principles for them might be applied to the digital method or systems they choose to use. I suspect there are good ways to apply the mode change and slowing down that make analog tools useful, to the digital sphere.