The Observer Effect – Marc Andreessen

The thing I’ve tried to do the last few years is really ‘barbell’ the inputs. I basically read things that are either up to this minute or things that are timeless…They are Lindy safe.Yeah. I’m trying to strip out all the stuff in the middle. What I’ve discovered is the number of people who can write something in the middle zone – when they’re trying to explain something that happened last week, month, a year or even a decade – and who I trust to actually give me an objective read on the situation is just a really, really short list. There’s a handful but there aren’t very many.We have one situation currently – what’s literally happening right now [with COVID-19]. Coronavirus is one where everyday I’m looking at all the science and all the economics because these are critical issues. And I’m trying to avoid all the commentary and all of the interpretation. And then the other, as you said, there’s just a very large amount of timeless stuff that really has been proven right over time. You could spend your entire life only reading timeless works which is what smart people used to do.

Source: The Observer Effect – Marc Andreessen