Was talking with a friend who works in the news/publishing industry recently, and he told me: “If you were to pick up a copy of the NYT and read every story on the front page, you’d learn more about what’s happening in the world than a whole day on Twitter”
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If there is a ‘perfect’ cross-section of all possible information (not a foregone conclusion, IMO), then my choices are probably suboptimal But they aren’t arbitrary—I put non-zero effort into curating my inputs, and it would take a lot to convince me to let someone else do it
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So for me, the operative question is: Can the folks at the New York Times do a better job of deciding what I should read than I can? I’m skeptical, but will probably read the next newspaper or magazine I come across (for the first time in maybe a year)
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