There is too much information available today for you to trust information. I already don't trust people so this adjustment was easy for me to make. There is such much shit to read online that if you spent the rest of your life reading without a break, you'd never scratch the surface of all there is to read. Some day we will have computer enhancements for our brains and we'll be able to just download every bit of relevant information on our chosen topic and we'll go on from there. For most people, that topic will be mostly about vaginas. How to get oneself into them, where they can be found yada yada. My point is that even then, we still won't know all there has been written because there is just too much of it for anyone to carry around.
I don't click on any link that implies that the content is going to be a numbered list unless it's a comedy site. If the numbered list thing helps you to sell your great comedy then have at it. I suppose I could give it a try on this site too, but I find the format nauseating and annoying. Not reading something because it is a numbered list featuring a couple of the old "one weird tricks" and "you won't believe number 5" a good call. You have to spend your time wisely on this Earth. Don't waste the time that you could have spent on learning the Socratic method on flipping through endless tabs about how to apply makeup or how to interpret the meaning of a text from your crush.
Have you ever taken a moment to just sit back and wonder about the nature of a world where we can ask a computer a question and it will give us back millions of responses? When I do just that, all I think is "man, I should really just go fuck myself." Nah not really, that's not what I think. I actually wonder how much of that information is actually useful. I'd wager that almost none of it is actually worth something. Worth in the sense that absorbing it would make your life better somehow.
I only trust information that I have paid for. I only trust people that will work for money. I have never learned anything all that useful about bar stuff just from googling it. I have gained every meaningful bit of expertise that I have from reading books and experiencing the trade first hand. I have never had anyone do me a favor that didn't cost me more in the end then it was ever worth to begin with. I'm saying don't let anyone do anything for free. If they won't accept your money, then they don't intend to do a good job. That or they don't think that they can do a good job.
Maybe none of what I've written here resonates with you. Maybe you think my approach is lame and archaic. That's good, all well and good. Keep doing what you do and I'll keep doing what I do. I'm in no position to advise anyone. Taking advice from someone as unsuccessful as me is like building your modern day battleship to the specifications of the viking engineers from a thousand years ago. It might work, but let's not try risk it all for a theory.
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