In my 20s, I was an information sponge. In my 30s, I realize information is commoditized, and the signal-to-noise ratio is very low. Even after I scaled back my consumption to only 'serious' publications and podcasts, I realized they have a ton of fluff too.
So now I primarily restrict my internet use to addressing questions that I personally have. No more opening a podcast app just to see who's on what this week.
The downside of this is that I'm not as interested in broadening the scope of my knowledge as I used to be. That's the point of taking a focused approach over time, but it's also bittersweet because I am intentionally narrowing my fields of interest to the essentials; I discovered a lot of cool stuff in my 20s that I may not in my 40s.
In my 20s, I was an information sponge. In my 30s, I realize information is commoditized, and the signal-to-noise ratio is very low. Even after I scaled back my consumption to only 'serious' publications and podcasts, I realized they have a ton of fluff too.
So now I primarily restrict my internet use to addressing questions that I personally have. No more opening a podcast app just to see who's on what this week.
The downside of this is that I'm not as interested in broadening the scope of my knowledge as I used to be. That's the point of taking a focused approach over time, but it's also bittersweet because I am intentionally narrowing my fields of interest to the essentials; I discovered a lot of cool stuff in my 20s that I may not in my 40s.