an information consumption guide

The amount of information created daily is huge. You need to set up some proper filters to preserve your sanity. Here is my personal advice:

- For your deep readings, follow a professional human curator who has similar interests as you do. (You need someone whose actual job is curation. Pay if necessary.) Algorithmic machine curators are horrible at spotting high-quality articles, because they use inputs generated by the general public and the general public has absolutely no taste or depth.

- For your news reading, follow an algorithmic curator. Machines are much better at quickly scanning large databases and bringing together a comprehensive and timely feed. You will not experience much downside neither since the importance of a piece of news is highly correlated with its popularity.

Note that, in both cases, other human readers are utilised to do the most mechanical part of the job for you. This means that if these advices are followed by everyone, then they will no longer work. Machine curators will have no signals to work with and human curators will wait for others to curate.