The danger of listening to incredibly smart and persuasive people is that they're often not paired up with a real intellectual sparring partner. 

When you only hear one side of the argument presented well it's easy to believe that side when it might actually just be that that person is very good debating

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Was listening @pmarca talk to @aarthi and @sriramk.eth and Marc said he limits his consumption of "analysis" content and instead focuses on tried and true (old) + bleeding edge content. Increasingly thinking ~this is the way~

I do something slightly different which is to extract (and verify) the primary sources when I consume analysis and come to my own conclusions. Easier said than done, though.

Of persuasive people without pushback or of primary source extraction?

I think I was just sleep, I get what you mean now haha. I do the same thing because primary resources are generally written, and that is a more logical medium than a talk or speech.