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Information Nutrition
As a strategist, if you want rare insight, you need to have access to rare perspectives and those come from people, not publications or posts on social media.
Jean Louis • Information Nutrition
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You might think a healthy information diet – especially one for a business leader or strategist – would have information at the bottom of the pyramid, but you’d be missing a crucial insight. Connection is how we process information.
When there’s a big event in the media, it’s our collective discussion of it that makes it make sense to us. If you wa... See more
When there’s a big event in the media, it’s our collective discussion of it that makes it make sense to us. If you wa... See more
Jean Louis • Information Nutrition
Human connection as vital to processing and making use of information. This is killer and has a bunch of implications for personal and professional life.
For example, instead of just sharing an article, we should surface the article and ask questions of our community. What do you think about the thesis of this article? Do you agree with my interpretation? Why or why not?
This is something I’ve experienced in my life, but I’ve never articulated it clearly like this.
Unlike a spike in adrenaline or cortisol that is easy to observe, low-oxytocin content gradually adjusts our expectations of the kind of world we live in. Given enough engagement, it changes how we view our neighborhoods and our neighbors. It encourages us to be disconnected skeptics.
Jean Louis • Information Nutrition
What a great articulation of how the flood of information we consume now and the particular kind of information we consume can mold our realities. It’s really insidious.
Building a T-shaped knowledge graph means aggressively diversifying your information sources, spreading out wider to seemingly unrelated areas and capturing the advantage of being at the beginning of the diminishing returns curve where you’re constantly exposed to new ideas. It also means being selectively ignorant about certain things. You have to... See more
Jean Louis • Information Nutrition
Take 30 minutes every day to journal on an idea and explore its repercussions or deeper considerations. Then, go share those reflections with someone. If you don’t have someone to have that conversation with, spend 30 minutes instead reaching out to people who might be interested. This is the real practice of “digesting” our information.
Jean Louis • Information Nutrition
The short of it is that when we think about information diets we might fixate on the quantity of information but ignore the quality and the processing of it. That’s like only looking at calories to determine if a diet is healthy. We need to have a higher-fidelity picture of the information we consume – our entire perception of reality relies upon i... See more
Information Nutrition
As a strategist, if you want rare insight, you need to have access to rare perspectives and those come from people, not publications or posts on social media.