Clay Shirky summed it up in 2008, and he’s still right: “The problem isn’t information overload, it’s filter failure.” Our - Keith Ferrazzi

Real, actionable insight mostly comes from experience, books, and other people.

Identify the people in your industries who always seem to be out in front, and use all the relationship skills you've acquired to connect with them. Take them to lunch. Read their newsletters. In fact, read everything you can. Online, there are hundreds of individuals distilling information, analyzing it, and making prognos-tications. These armchair analysts are the eyes and ears of innovation. Now get online and read, read, read. Subscribe to magazines, buy books, and talk to the smartest people you can find. Eventually, all this knowledge will build on itself, and you'll start making connections others aren't.

the currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.