Trevor Newberry

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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.

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

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.

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 ... See more

Sari Azout • The End of Productivity

How do I facilitate more time for “foraging” style of information collection?

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

These systems can be used to give LLMs a form of memory, searching past interactions or previously uploaded documents for useful information. This memory will work much like our own, in that thinking about one idea might unlock random connections to other ideas we thought we had forgotten. As context windows expand and more of our lives get digitiz... See more

Michael Taylor • When Guessing Isn’t Good Enough

The implication here is kind of what Sublime is attempting to build and operationalize for individuals.

To lean into the introspective mood of this time of year, we asked founders: What are your go-to prompts for self-reflection? On The Review, we’ve compiled their responses into a list of 25 questions that founders can ask themselves to get more clarity at every step of the startup journey — from setting your daily to-do list to rethinking the prod... See more

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