It often feels like we're drowning in a sea of meetings, documents, notifications and alerts. And to some degree that's true. Information overload is bad for you and it's bad for business. But that doesn't mean there's nothing we can do about it.

In this episode of Get Reworked, David Lavenda joins us to put some perspective on the topic and how we can better manage the flood of information that comes our way. It's not the first time humanity has grappled with the challenge.

"Throughout history, every time a new information technology has been created or become popular, there's always been somebody who stepped in and said, 'This time it's different.'" he said. "Eventually things work themselves out and we move on."

In this episode, David explains how information overload isn't a new problem and what we can do to better manage it in our personal and professional lives. Highlights of the conversation include:

• The history of information overload and how every generation has to grapple with it.
• The three different kinds of information overload.
• How topic computing and new technology can help.
• Why AI isn't going to solve our problems.

Plus, host Siobhan Fagan opens up about her Internet browser problem and she and co-host Mike Prokopeak set up a Slack conversation to initiate the Zoom meeting to create the Google Doc to address their channel overload problem.