“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.” — A. J. Liebling
- The Paradox of News: The more news you consume, the less informed you are about the world.
- Want to know more about the world? Turn off the news and go spend time in it.
- Nassim Taleb’s “Noise Bottleneck”
- More data leads to a higher ratio of noise-to-signal
- By consuming more, you end up knowing less about what’s actually going on.
- Gell-Mann Razor
- Assume every media article contains a certain percent of false information.
- Sandbox the article from your worldview until you’ve:
- Seen primary sources
- Spoken to 3 domain experts
