Self-awareness · Lab
The Information Diet Audit
Audit your inputs the way you'd audit your food. Most diets are silently terrible.
What you read for an hour a day shapes what you can think about for the rest of the day. The brain doesn't pick up a topic on demand — it pulls from whatever was most recently in working memory.
This lab audits the last 24 hours of your information diet. The result is usually uncomfortable.
List every meaningful thing you read or watched in the last 24 hours.
Try it on yourself
Diet quality check
How many of those items will you still remember next week?
Information that doesn't survive 7 days didn't really enter your model. It just occupied attention. The fix isn't reading less — it's reading more carefully and deleting more aggressively.
If you can't recall it in 7 days, it didn't make it past short-term memory.
A question for you
“Pick one source you'll cut this week. What's the smallest replacement that compounds?”
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