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Information is mostly just noise. The actual useful stuff comes rarely, so I try as much as possible to minimize the external information I get that is not impo
by maxklein 17y ago
Information is mostly just noise. The actual useful stuff comes rarely, so I try as much as possible to minimize the external information I get that is not important - for example, the news. The news are mostly totally unimportant and irrelevant. If you read the news twice a week, that's more than fine.
I also believe in using tools that pre/filter the info I get so I don|t have to wade through junk to read the info that could be useful to me.
Information gathering can be a big time waste with no direct benefit. But it\s addictive, and hence dangerous.
- ghotli 17y ago"I also believe in using tools that pre/filter the info I get so I don|t have to wade through junk to read the info that could be useful to me." Care to elaborate on your methods?
- maxklein 17y agoNothing spectacular - I don't subscribe to blogs or forums or newssites, just to news aggregators that allow some form of voting then only read the highest ranked stuff.
- j_baker 17y agoI think what you're getting at is that information by itself isn't necessarily useful, but knowledge is.