Hi Harold,

The PKM process seems akin to the aggressive/active listening espoused by Tom Peters and others. From my perspective these are both acts of signal-to-noise processing. We live in a stimulus-rich environment. Some of this is genuine signal; useful to our needs and interests. The rest is noise. This situation is not a function of the availability of information or the explosion of social media. The challenge is (and always has been) to parse out the noise and respond to the signal. Perhaps the signal-to-noise ratio is constant over time; I don't know. A few years ago Dan Pink told us the ability to "connect the dots" was a necessary skill. I agree with Dan and add to it the basic skill of finding the signal in all that noise will be a differentiating success factor as the quantity stimulus increases.