Outcome Orientation as a Cure for Information Overload - Commoncog
Join 9,000+ sharp investors and operators like yourself, and we'll send you a collection of Commoncog's best articles right away: I no longer suffer from information overload. This is a little bizarre to say. I’ve not cut down on tools, nor have I bought new software. My workflows — whilst somewhat under-optimised (can they ever be truly ‘perfectly optimised’?) — are still mostly the same. The solution to my problems comes not from tool-use but from a new, internal stance. I learnt this from Dinesh Raju, who taught me this sometime in August last year. The technique originates from investing — it is fairly common to hear investment professionals say “curate your information sources”; I used to think this meant ‘keep a good, well filtered information diet’. I now realise this is mistaken — investors have to consume large amounts of information as part of their job; there is no way a ‘strict diet’ approach would work for them. ‘Outcome Orientation’ is a more accurate description of what
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