If you want to maintain an information advantage, you should definitely not rely solely on the web. Simply reading a book is often 10x better. Comment from a

If you want to maintain an information advantage, you should definitely not rely solely on the web. Simply reading a book is often 10x better. Comment from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369583 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38369583 One thing I've found comically underestimated is books. It's not whether the information is physical or electronic, but what actual corpus of information is available ... So yeah I'd say 3 main repos of knowledge are: the open Internet, printed books, and Scihub, and many people today only use the first one Though I'd also put "talking to the right people" and by extension "working at the right place" pretty high up there in getting novel information. I think for a certain generation, Google probably diluted their ability to access other knowledge bases, and act upon that info. And for the generation currently learning how to learn, LLMs may do the same thing.