Many social media platforms serve small-sized content for you to get hooked on and consume more of. This is now a widely known thing and not at all ground breaking. You find yourself, and those around you, habitually wanting to consume more - regardless of what it is as long as it is short enough for their shotened attention span.

Working in tech can make this worse. The industry moves incredibly fast and it's natural to try to keep up with the changes. Afterall, your livelihood may depend on it.

Many in the industry end up consuming more. And many of those in tech are probably "optimisers", so they try to do it more efficiently. For those people, podcasts and videos are never played at 1x speed. The goal isn't just to consume more, but to do it faster too.

Given how much changes in the tech industry, there is a case for consuming more. The problem is when this habit creeps into other forms of consumption and learnings.

Allow yourself to ponder more deeply. Re-listen to that podcast episode that resonated with you. Re-read that book that made you think differently. Re-watch that talk. Think about them. Actually give your brain the chance to think thorugh and interrogate some ideas.

And most importantly, act on what you learned. Give it a try instead of being distracted by the next learning opportunity. Don't be simply a collector of knowledge. Mix what you already know with what you recently learned and start doing.

One thing you can try is creating a re-listen playlist and/or a re-read reading (books/articles) list. Next time you look for a new podcast episode or a new book, turn to these lists instead. Every now and then you can review these lists and ask yourself "what did I learn from this?", "what am I applying from this in my day-to-day?".