Kyle Harrison
concept

Media Consumption

Media Consumption

How much, what and in what form a person takes in information and content. The saved posts filed here treat it as something to be designed rather than absorbed, and fall into three groups.

Filtering and budgeting.

  • Tiago Forte argues for starting from how much time one is willing to spend on content rather than from everything one wants to consume.
  • Andrew Kuhn’s thread says information cannot be consumed on autopilot and that filters in the mind are needed to pull out unique insights.
  • Balaji compares news to carbs, something marketed as good for you that is bad for you, and asks what a better information diet looks like.
  • Sean Linehan expects the rise of an “Information Dietician” who recommends changes in what one feeds one’s brain.
  • Andrew Wilkinson suggests shifting toward historical rather than current events and toward longform with a full arc.
  • Aadit Sheth updates a familiar line: you are the average of the five people whose content you consume most.

Curated stacks and prompts.

  • Matt Castellini’s “VC content stack” lists newsletters and podcasts he reads, and Morgan Housel points to a collection of short book reviews.
  • Patrick O’Shaughnessy asks what the last 10/10 post, essay or article was that you read.
  • Polina Pompliano passes along James Clear’s advice on optimizing one’s content diet.

The shape of content. Shahed Khan observes that books, podcasts and online learning are mostly static or ephemeral, with no single source holding both the historical context and the current state of a topic.

  • July 24th, 2023: Will Manidis asked “what is the most underrated pdf available online”: what is the most underrated pdf (July 2023)… (tweet). He asked it again in November 2024, and that thread became The Most Underrated PDF on the Internet.

Where this appears

  • 1- You Can’t Consume Information… (tweet)
  • Don’t Start from the Outside… (tweet)
  • My VC Content Stack - -@notboringclub… (tweet)
  • News is Like Carbs. Something… (tweet)
  • One of the Biggest Issues… (tweet)
  • Soon, I Expect We Will… (tweet)
  • These 10 Threads Will Teach… (tweet)
  • This Collection of Short Book… (tweet)
  • Want to Optimize Your Content… (tweet)
  • What’s the Last 10-10 Post-essay-article… (tweet)

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