Agree that media diet is huge. A couple years ago, when I was trying to level up my own writing career, I decided to finally put down the money for a bunch of quality subscriptions: WSJ, FT, New Yorker, etc. Aside from the quality of the writing and reporting, it just exposed me to things my own dumb Instagram algorithm or websites comfortably in my own political persuasion weren’t. Just going off social media and free-to-read SEO factories is like having a bag of Taki Fuego every night for dinner.
Agree that media diet is huge. A couple years ago, when I was trying to level up my own writing career, I decided to finally put down the money for a bunch of quality subscriptions: WSJ, FT, New Yorker, etc. Aside from the quality of the writing and reporting, it just exposed me to things my own dumb Instagram algorithm or websites comfortably in my own political persuasion weren’t. Just going off social media and free-to-read SEO factories is like having a bag of Taki Fuego every night for dinner.