The global village
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Read on Hacker NewsA good quote from an article I was recently reading (The Cultural Paradox of the Global Village - http://www.utoronto.ca/mcluhan/article_culturalparadox.htm ) If attention is the most valuable commodity, our most valued asset, it may be said that the most valuable personal skill to be effective these days is ignorance, literally ignore-ance -- the ability to selectively and appropriately ignore that which is irrelevant or merely distracting. In this context, ignorance is not bliss -- it is the practical manifestation of acute awareness and heightened perception.
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