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How to use a blunt instrument to sharpen your saw

Ah, Reg nails it here. NAILS IT, I say. Bang, bang, bang - NAILED.

This is why:

• It's a good idea to read as many sources of info (blogs, whatever) as your brain can handle on skim mode
• It's generally counter-productive to "prune" anything, whether that be your Twitter followers, your Blogroll, or any other damn thing
• You ought to read as many damn books as your brain can handle. ALL THE TIME.
• You ought to blog about your experiences with the above (join the conversation, dude. Seriously. This is how you simulate the "tell-listen-correct" cycle of classic pedagogy. You park your ego at the door, and muse about what you read, what you think, and hope somebody is kind enough to point out your mistakes.)

It's also why people who close comments, don't offer comments, and delete comments, or who complain about the burden of having to skim over "too many" comments, are completely and utterly wrong. Cause ya just never know when there's gonna be some meat and gravy in there.

Might even help prevent Alzheimers. It's why virtually all sources of information are worthwhile -- you bark and wag your tail and enjoy the good stuff. So. The obvious question: how to deal with overload, and sources with poor signal to noise ratio? Fucked if I know. I doubt there's a universal algorithm, though. Everybody's got to find their own Aston-Martins. All I know is -- I've got mine, and one of them just gave me a plate full of yummies. Thanks, Reg.