Information Pressure: The Psychological Burden of the Information Age (2025)

https://medium.com/@juhaodong/i-recently-came-up-with-a-new-concept-information-pressure-6ae6d4f31d22

by dredmorbius • 13 days ago

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I was doodling with an AI chatbot about the relative availability vs. attention of content online, particularly in social media, when the AI came up with the term "platform information pressure". That appears to be an original coining, though there are a few hits on "information pressure" which match the social sense intended: the availability (and often overabundance) of information in various contexts.

I'd also submitted a LinkedIn essay from 2015 though HN's filters seem to have autoflagged that. Both it and the above article only capture a part of what I'd had in mind, though I find them interesting and useful to understanding the concept.

LinkedIn: "Information pressure and information capacity" by Simon Waller, 16 September 2015 <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/information-pressure-capacity...>

Information Pressure: The Psychological Burden of the Information Age (2025)

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