Love this Bob - 100% agree about cultivating a balanced (and diverse) media diet - as well pursuing diversity in book selection. That's a whole different article to write! Much of the content in news media and social media sources reinforces confirmation bias because it supports the business model. I'm a strong advocate of focusing more on reading thought-provoking books than news articles and expanding your reading selection to include authors and topics outside one's "filter bubble." This helps increase the diversity (specifically diversity of thought) of your network, which improves the quality of one's thinking, relationships, well-being, etc. Glad to see you helping to support this with Hearty!
Totally agree, Todd, and thanks for your comment. For me: Reading a book is a lot "harder" than cruising through articles and tweets. But what you get in return is usually much more satisfying and useful. Sometimes I think it's even a competitive advantage! There's nothing more satisfying than seeing that I'm one of only 10 people who have underlined an insight book passage on the Kindle app--i.e. "Wow, almost no one else is reading this!?" One of the reasons I started writing again here is that I'm tired of seeing endless, lazy "hot takes" from politicians, VCs, etc. It's cheap, easy mental junk food.
Love this Bob - 100% agree about cultivating a balanced (and diverse) media diet - as well pursuing diversity in book selection. That's a whole different article to write! Much of the content in news media and social media sources reinforces confirmation bias because it supports the business model. I'm a strong advocate of focusing more on reading thought-provoking books than news articles and expanding your reading selection to include authors and topics outside one's "filter bubble." This helps increase the diversity (specifically diversity of thought) of your network, which improves the quality of one's thinking, relationships, well-being, etc. Glad to see you helping to support this with Hearty!
Totally agree, Todd, and thanks for your comment. For me: Reading a book is a lot "harder" than cruising through articles and tweets. But what you get in return is usually much more satisfying and useful. Sometimes I think it's even a competitive advantage! There's nothing more satisfying than seeing that I'm one of only 10 people who have underlined an insight book passage on the Kindle app--i.e. "Wow, almost no one else is reading this!?" One of the reasons I started writing again here is that I'm tired of seeing endless, lazy "hot takes" from politicians, VCs, etc. It's cheap, easy mental junk food.