gleaned

A staid fool's repository of book-summaries.

Shannon proposed an unsettling inversion. Ignore the physical channel and accept its limits: we can overcome noise by manipulating our messages. The answer to noise is not in how loudly we speak, but in how we say what we say.

— Soni, Jimmy. A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (p. 158). Simon & Schuster.