Jim VandeHei

It's just piles and piles of content.

And the consequences of that are everywhere, right?

It's why I think people are so confused.

I think it's why people are so anxious, why they're so overwhelmed.

The fact that myself, even now, in a given week, will send Mike Allen or somebody something I see and like, oh, this is really interesting.

Is it real?

No.

Just pause on that for a second.

You never asked that question five years ago.

If I sent you something or you read something, you would assume it was real.

And now the smartest people with the most discerning filters don't know if what's real because there's so much stuff coming from so many directions.

And I worry about it, and I talk to my kids a lot about this, that I think the biggest differentiator for success over the next couple of years, in addition to kind of AI proficiency and enthusiasm, is being on the right side of information inequality.

Like, if you filter things correctly...

If you know what to watch and what to read and what to listen to and what not to read, watch and listen to, you can form a bionic brain right now.

I feel so much smarter today than I did three or four years ago.

But not to kiss your ass, like part of it is finding people like you who kind of think panoramically on topics and provocatively on topics that I'm interested in, but that I didn't really have anywhere to get that type of content from.

uh, five years ago.

And now it's everywhere.

And you follow individual people or you watch a video on YouTube or you listen to the right podcast.

Like think about even us as reporters being like honestly, pretty wired reporters.