Too many dots
When you consume information, you collect dots.
But collecting dots isn’t enough. In fact, it can be confusing—especially when those dots are scattered, shallow, or incorrect. To make sense of them, you have to connect them. That’s where insight—and eventually wisdom—emerges. Connecting takes time. It requires thinking, pausing, synthesizing. This blog serves that purpose for me.
But even that’s not the end of the journey.
Collecting and connecting dots only matter if you do something with them. You also have to traverse the path—take action, test ideas, build, practice. That’s where you experience personal growth or material outcomes.
We live in an information-dense world. Everyone and their grandmother has a podcast, newsletter, or Twitter thread. And most of us fall into the trap of overconsuming—collecting way more dots than we need, often low-quality and redundant ones.
It feels productive. But most of the time, it’s just addiction and procrastination—an avoidance mechanism that keeps us from the harder, slower, more meaningful work of connecting and doing. You aren’t going to gain much from your sixth podcast on health optimization or fifteenth book on entrepreneurship; just do.
The magic doesn’t happen when you collect. It happens when you connect and act.
But collecting dots isn’t enough. In fact, it can be confusing—especially when those dots are scattered, shallow, or incorrect. To make sense of them, you have to connect them. That’s where insight—and eventually wisdom—emerges. Connecting takes time. It requires thinking, pausing, synthesizing. This blog serves that purpose for me.
But even that’s not the end of the journey.
Collecting and connecting dots only matter if you do something with them. You also have to traverse the path—take action, test ideas, build, practice. That’s where you experience personal growth or material outcomes.
We live in an information-dense world. Everyone and their grandmother has a podcast, newsletter, or Twitter thread. And most of us fall into the trap of overconsuming—collecting way more dots than we need, often low-quality and redundant ones.
It feels productive. But most of the time, it’s just addiction and procrastination—an avoidance mechanism that keeps us from the harder, slower, more meaningful work of connecting and doing. You aren’t going to gain much from your sixth podcast on health optimization or fifteenth book on entrepreneurship; just do.
The magic doesn’t happen when you collect. It happens when you connect and act.