ADD: the new normal

43 Folders links to a really interesting interview about our increasing inability to filter all the information in our lives, and the madness that can ultimately ensue as a result.

The original interview is good, but it’s the commentary on the 43 Folders site itself that totally nails it for me:

I think one of the emerging leadership skills of the next five years will be learning how to do brilliant filtering — either programatically or by delegating information-sorting to others. To ultimately become someone whose system accounts for incoming data in smart ways and who never has to make excuses about too much stuff.

Yeah, I know smart execs have delegated for centuries. But I can envision a world where sweating over your beepy electronic device starts looking about as “executive” and “pro-active” as sucking on a crack pipe in the break room.

For some people I know, this is already the case: they just shouldn’t be allowed to carry a BlackBerry, concealed or otherwise.

You know who you are.