Managing the Information Overload

John McElhenney
Social Media Strategist’s Notebook
5 min readJun 13, 2022

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It’s not a content problem, it’s a filter problem.

Our problem is not information overload, it is filter failure.

Every morning when I wake up the media and inputs are screaming for my attention. It is up to me what I want to spend time contemplating, writing about, and working on. Every single day we have to filter out thousands of messages, grabbing for our mental bandwidth…

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John McElhenney
Social Media Strategist’s Notebook

John McElhenney is an author, life coach, and musician who lives in Austin, Texas. He’s best known for his single dad blog, The Whole Parent. (wholeparent.org)