A friend loaned me his copy of a book called “Free: The future of a radical price”, written by Chris Anderson.
On page 12, Anderson writes:
“In the atoms economy, which is to say most of the stuff around us, things tend to get more expensive over time. But in the bits economy, which is the online world, things get cheaper. The atoms economy is inflationary, while the bits economy is deflationary.”
After setting the book down and taking a personal moment to collect myself, I have but one question: how do you separate the chaff from the wheat? That is, I want to finish this book – I believe there is valuable information in it, but it’s absolutely maddening to be served such critically false information alongside information that is potentially very useful.
Got any ideas, tactics or approaches to solving this dilemma?
I’d just drop it right after reading a sentence like this. Time is too precious. Learning to quickly recognize wise teachers from hacks is a must when the potential knowledge to be acquired explodes exponentially relative to the short lifetime given to acquire it.
Ah, how interesting these two replies came in in this order. Z’s perspective was my own, initially. I shut the book and declared aloud, “I can’t read this shit.”
But a nagging developed. I’m reading a book by Jack Canfield, and although he dedicates about 2 or 3 pages worth of text to the idea of religious faith, I can ignore that and absorb the good stuff. And so I must do with this book, though something tells there are quite a few more pages of erroneous data in there than in Jack’s book.
