Tech industry hipsters (of which I am, nominally, one): I don’t read news, it’s a waste of time.
Warren Buffett:
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It’s different though? He’s actively looking for financial arbitrage opportunities. It’s directed active news reading
Tech hipsters like us decry random passive current affairs newsreading which has no purpose other than to introduce noise
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Absolutely. I think it’s super easy for me to forget that being up to date *matters* for certain jobs — it just so happens that for our careers, being absolutely up to date doesn’t matter as much.

