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Back when most of the population didn't have access to books, you'd only have to make a choice if you wanted to learn from your dad or your mum or some other relative. Once libraries became a thing, now you had to choose from dozens, then hundreds of different books on the same topic and across all that would interest you. Was that overwhelming? Yes, most certainly if you didn't have the skills to pick one book and go with it.

There is nothing special this time around with the Internet other than the number of choices being orders of magnitude higher. And there are tools orders of magnitude more capable to sift through them (provided you have the skills to use those tools effectively).

I used to go down rabbit holes and get overwhelmed but have since learnt not to and instead keep focus.