The Information Delusion

What do you really know?

With the huge amount of information we have at our fingertips nowadays, it is easy to fall in the comfortable delusion of thinking you know and can understand anything. Reading the first two or three search results on a specific issue give us a pretty good general idea, but it’s a general idea that if left unchecked can quickly snowball into a false sense of comprehension.

It is only until you put that knowledge to use that you can test it.

Wikipedia as research, superficial knowledge assumed to mean mastery

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