There are a lot of drivers for fragmentation and opacity online. Venture capital throwing money at start ups to see what sticks, search engine optimization, gu

There are a lot of drivers for fragmentation and opacity online. Venture capital throwing money at start ups to see what sticks, search engine optimization, gut-feeling opinionated blogging to build personal brands (self selecting for unexperienced being loud and misleading a lot of the new arrivals) etc. The cure for me has been two fold: 1) Focusing on books from reputable publishing houses (curated long form content) - but even that takes filtering. I noticed O'Riley has been putting out a lot of noise lately. 2) Focusing on open-standards, sound engineering. I'd rather focus on understanding hardware, operating systems, networking etc then myriad software as a service offerings full of vendor lock-in dark patterns.