Young people can find information faster and sort information faster than older people. For example, young people are more likely to use the best tool at the best time: They collaborate on wiki-type tools with ease. They crowdsource. They’re aces with downloading software onto the company laptop to become more productive and efficient. Think about it: Younger people don’t utter the phrase “information overload” because they don’t feel it; they benefit from the plasticity of the brain, which has adapted, over their Internet-based lives to process information faster.

Lately, I’ve been thinking that my primary work skill is collecting piles of information and distilling that knowledge down into the answer I want. I do that at least twice an hour, every weekday.

(Source: blog.penelopetrunk.com)