Mario Harik

But going back to how

I consume information.

One, we do a lot of research as a company.

So we have a small team of analysts that every weekend actually pulls together research reports from the industry, from all of our competitors, from what we're hearing about ourselves in the media.

from customers, research on their companies and what they are hearing.

And every weekend, effectively, I get from the team, both for ourselves, for our competitors, for our industry, for side businesses, and for customers, hundreds of pages of content that are all highlighted, what are some of the key points, what they are, with a summary created for each one of them.

And usually on the weekend, either Saturday or Sunday, I actually read those couple hundred pages of content.

Now, as I read them effectively, I highlight the pieces that I thought were important.

In some cases, I could share them with the team and say, hey, when I was reading this, this is what I saw.

What do you think of this outcome?

Or what do you think of this, whatever new technology or something that we write in there?

So I think that's more of a process-based approach to be able to read more and learn more.

From people I meet, I usually again ask a lot of questions if they are inside industries, whether it's a CEO you meet at a conference or an investor, you effectively get to pick their brain on what they are seeing, how they are doing things, how they are doing things differently and you effectively that helps inform kind of what you're doing.

So I think step number one is having a very conscious view of being able to go get information and consume information to get a more holistic view, a more holistic picture of whatever it is a topic that you're looking at.

In terms of how you filter signal from noise,

I don't know if there's a specific method to do that.

I think while you are consuming information, I think you have to be very honest about the information you're consuming.

And one of the techniques I use is how many times do I see something appearing in a certain set of information that I'm consuming?

So for example, let's say, not to pick AI, but let's say in AI, you're seeing that the new reasoning models are getting better, but then you're hearing it from customers who are using them in certain ways.

You're hearing it from research on tech companies that you're looking in a certain way.