How to Find Good Information

There are two modes of information discovery: foraging and hunting. Foraging is passive. You don’t have a clear goal; you just wander and scroll until something catches your interest. Hunting is active and purposeful. You know what you’re looking for and are consciously searching for it. A good information diet needs both: Foraging helps us decide

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A subscriber recently asked me how I decide what information to consume.

The first step is to distinguish good info from junk info. Good info is that which changes you, either by making you think or act differently, or by changing the certainty with which you already think or act. Junk info is the opposite; you’re exactly the same after consuming i... See more

Your ideas are a product of the information you consume. Improving your outputs requires actively directing your attention to high-quality information streams and diverting attention from low-quality ones.

The tricky thing is that our information ecosystem is full of talented marketers who masquerade as experts with convincing copywri

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