Information Dominance - How Young Jimmy Survived The Dystopian Future (Part 2)

How to dominate in the information age.

I said I was going to discontinue this series but dude to overwhelming interest you guys forced me to continue. Enjoy!

You’re walking home from the local market place and at the corner of your eye you spot some movement. You quickly turn you head to look and you realize it’s a Government Peace Officer beating up a guy that is pinned between an armored vehicle on the road and the elevated sidewalk. You decide that’s its not worth it to engage, you ignore them and continue walking. You reach your home, open the door and lay down the groceries. You sit on your couch and quickly fall asleep. It’s now 9:20 PM and you turn on the news to see what’s going on. The news anchor is talking about your neighborhood and how a guy got beat to death by a gang of criminals. You turn off the TV and realize you can no longer trust anything and to survive this dystopia you’re going to have to find away to get good information.

You have a lot of work to do Jimmy.

What is information?

One definition from the online Merriam-Webster dictionary describes information as “knowledge that you get about someone or something : facts or details about a subject”. Sounds great right? No! You’re no idiot right? So for us, information is anything and everything. Objects, labels, smells, everything you can see, everything you can hear etc. EVERYTHING is information.

Information is everything and everywhere, so there is no way you can store all of it. Your objective is to gather as much of it as you can that is relevant to you and your goals.

What to do with information?

I should just gather a bunch of relevant information and act on it right? NO! Just because your best friend tweeted that the price of bitcoin is $7000 doesn’t it make it true and blindly acting on it can cause your capital to get rapidly liquidated.

Ok so what do I do with information?

Just because you got information doesn’t mean it’s “good” information. There is true information and there is also info that is false and malicious. Most people don’t know this but information is meant to be filtered.

Information you have should be in different phases in your brain. You can even label folders on your computer that contain documents in different phases.

5) Unfiltered info: This is everything from tweets to emails, news, sounds and even smells

4) Source: Take that piece of information that has your interest and with no ego gather info from all the sources you can get from it even sources that you may not like. Example: Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Euro News, Aljazeera, Independent journalists, regular people etc.

3) Confirmation: Put all your sources side by side and take all the information that overlap from at least 3-5+ different sources, use your own discretion here. The more sources that confirm the closer you are to phase one.

2) Test: The weather man and weather app on your phone told you it’s raining right now. Go outside and test if that’s actually happening. You’ll have to get creative here. I’m sure a scientist can tell you how to run tests better then I can. The information you confirmed tells you what you need to put in your beakers.

1) Knowledge: After the testing phase the information that makes it through is now knowledge. You can now disseminate that knowledge to others and act on it with a high level of certainty that you will succeed. Some people never succeed because they’ve been acting on bad information. Take me for example… I’ve been lifting weights since I was 17 but had bad information on nutrition.. I was strong but never grew past 170. later in life (like last year shhhh!) I filtered down my nutrition information down to the knowledge phase and started to grow way bigger.

It’s ok to have information stuck in a certain phase, just know that you can’t trust it until you can filter it down to knowledge. If you’re in a urgent situation and have to act on it make sure you’re mitigating the potential risks.

The cycle of information filtering never ends. You’re basically running an oil refinery 24/7

Young Jimmy, now you know that you should filter your information to decrease your risk of failure. Go forth and conquer the world.