you should constrain your attention to the small number of people who have proved to be world class on the topics you care about. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they have to write for a big established organization—a powerful voice expressing herself on a personal blog can be just as high quality as a longtime reporter for the Economist—but instead that they’ve proved to you to be reliably smart and insightful with their writing. When an issue catches your attention, in other words, you’re usually better served checking in on what the people you respect most think about it than wading into
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