January 16, 2010
Once Again, Ahead Of My Time
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Andrew Sullivan flags a post from a guy named David Dalrymple about how filtering information becomes paramount as we get more and more inundated with data.
Anyone who knows me has probably heard me say something similar to this for years. Usually it's when someone accuses me of being smart, because I humbly maintain that I don't know things as much as I know where to find things. That said, filtering is only half the battle. The bigger piece, and the way to really separate yourself intellectually, is to draw lines between those things once you've filtered them, and the less obvious the line, the better. That's sort of the how and why of this blog, actually.
I think I got the early line on this because I'm a data guy, and have been sifting through information as a career for nearly twenty years now. It's not any sort of prescient insight, just that I've been in the world everyone else finds themselves in for quite some time.
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