> The problem is keeping those insights. One has to hold on to them, ensure they don't get lost in the ever increasing sea of information.

Oh boy, yes. I find that holding on to that fragile mote of sanity is often like something you can only see on the edge of your field of vision, which, the moment you look directly at it, draws you into its complexity so deeply that you lose your image of the whole in your journeys within it.