Trevor Newberry
@trevornewberry
Trevor Newberry
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?
building products is all about tradeoffs. wholeheartedly recommend coming up with a set of principles that you can refer to whenever something is in doubt and you need criteria to evaluate a decision. these were the principles we came up with at sublime https://t.co/ZjnA29n1sT
My book notes on “Range” by David Epstein
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.
Brian Eno on the value of community to develop “genius.”
He calls this “scenius".
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.
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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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.