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M. LoppManaging Humanshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7116-2_12

12. Information Starvation

Each piece of information that arrives has a proper home or homes
Michael Lopp1  
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Los Gatos, CA, USA
 

There’s someone standing outside your office, and he’s not saying a thing.

It’s a freakout, but for now, he’s just standing there. Or maybe he’s not. Maybe he’s employing the Hover—where he walks by every few minutes. It could be the Long Stare, where he stands outside and just glares. My favorite is the Avalanche when you look up from your screen and have mere seconds to brace yourself before the tumbling heap of frustration piles into your office.

What you call these freakouts is unimportant. What’s essential is that you figure out how ...

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