jtgi
@jtgi
what's the ideal information diet? indexing on medium, i'm something like this now: • 10% books: audiobooks on biographies • 10% podcasts: business, startups, boxing • 0% periodicals • 80% social media: wc/x/reddit • 1% blogs • 1% streaming video i'd like to be: • 60% books • 10% podcasts • 10% periodicals • 4% social media • 15% blogs • 1% streaming video there's at least a few other dimensions though.
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rish
@rish
ideal information is just high quality information, source doesn't really matter imo books have historically had better quality than the rest so its a good proxy indicator but doesnt have to be e.g. if you want to read research papers instead (and I say this after doing many years of 50 books/year)
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jtgi
@jtgi
ya, it’s a proxy, there’s other dimensions (topics, quality, opinion/research, etc) but I was trying not to mid curve it too much. the medium encourages types of content, e.g social media tends to be short, lossy, temporal, ephemeral and quippy. Books the opposite and so on.
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rish
@rish
agree. personally I prefer reading over every other medium pretty much - i look through podcast notes instead of listening to podcasts (and generally listen to very few podcasts) - most inbound information is split between books and warpcast - warpcast routes to blogs, etc. I should check out - bibliographies of books route to other books - approx. 30 mins of video a day, could be a show or youtube have a twitter account but don't check that often, don't have instagram, tiktok or anything else haven't felt a huge need to change. I would like to read more books but its been harder since I started working on Neynar and I have been okay with that tradeoff
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