Eating Only Dessert: Why Your Information Diet Is Probably Terrible

“If you only ate what you want then we’d probably put the dessert section at the top of the menu, rather than at the bottom,” he says. “I think the same thing is happening with journalism: we’re going straight to dessert every time.”

Tech-savvy people are no exception.

“Technologists aren’t picking up a newspaper: they’re going to Hacker News or Reddit or Tech Meme and reading stuff that really doesn’t matter to them,” he says. “Technology journalism today is written by people who don’t understand technology, and it basically amounts to advertisements for Apple, Google, Amazon or Microsoft.”