Daniel J. Levitin
The title – The Organized Mind, and the subtitle – Thinking straight in the age of information overload – led me to quite some expectation, which unfortunately weren’t met. A better title for the book, IMO, would have been ‘How the mind is organised’. That the book was published in 2014, when the noise levels were of a magnitude different from the current circumstances, also doesn’t help.
The first fifty or so pages make some attempt at ‘How you should organise yourself’ – from where we place objects so we don’t have to actively remember where they are kept to organising work into multiple ‘folders’ – a 2×2 of urgency and importance, but then degenerates into things like how to create a good password!
I thought that after setting the context in Part 1, Part 2 would get into frameworks or processes. But while the chapter titles are all on target- organising homes, social world, time, information for decision making, business world – I really didn’t find anything useful.
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