99% of people are muted
How many people do you actively follow on your daily feeds?
If you audit your feed today, how happy are you with the library you cultivate?
I’m choosing to follow people, and this is a library is now the greatest influence over my worldview.
Steven’s insight resonates with me.
Follow that with Billy Oppenheimer's thoughts on who needs a Capturing System.
What if we're keeping the feed full of not helpful stuff? How is that changing us?
If you're like me, you barely follow 0.00001% of all 4.7 billion social media accounts out there.
99% of people are muted from our feeds.
How would it be to follow the best 1%?
How would that change us?
Curation is key
Definition: The action or process of selecting, organizing, and looking after the items in a collection or exhibition.
The use of the word grows as the volume of information created, captured, copied, and consumed worldwide expands.
Curation is vital to keep our sanity because there's just too much junk out there.
This became part of Positive Experiments’ mission. You can read about it here.
I treat my knowledge base, this newsletter, my feeds, and my wardrobe as collections.
Being intentional
So much written on intentionality in the knowledge base — still to be published.
My progress comes from two essential initiatives, time tracking and meditation.
It all boils down to one right question, how am I using my time right now?
Being intentional forces you to remember that it is a choice.
Attention follows intention.
The five people rule
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
Have you heard that?
How about spending time following the most? How does social media change that paradigm?
This influence shapes our perceptions, reactions, and language. I see that in myself.
Eventually, you start to think as they think.
According to research by social psychologist Dr. David McClelland of Harvard, [the people you habitually associate with] determine as much as 95 percent of your success or failure in life.
— Darren Hardy writes in The Compound Effect
Gotta be intentional in selecting those.
Curators I follow
This list will evolve as my interest and time expand.
Ryan Holiday for Stoicism
Kevin Kelly weekly at Recomendo
Lenny Rachitsky newsletter for everything product growth
Joseph Carlson Show for growing my dividend investing philosophy
Great to see my name on the list of curators!