Lessons tagged “depth-of-processing”

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Depth over breadth for signal detection

Deep engagement with fewer sources extracts more signal than shallow engagement with many. Depth builds the perceptual structures that make signal detection possible. Breadth, pursued without depth, produces the illusion of being informed while degrading your capacity to understand anything.

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