How to Use The Internet Wisely
2025-06-23 20:32
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1. Stay away from short form content: "Tweets", comments, and video shorts. Steer more towards blogs and long-form writing. Question/answer forums also tend to be extremely valuable. Enter in with a question, study the matter, and try not to be too curious about unrelated things.

2. Learn search engine tricks like site-specific searches. Install or add search engine browser shortcuts / hotstrings and experiment to see which engines are better at answering which questions.

3. AI/LLM search engines like Perplexity and ChatGPT can be very useful for research. Be sure to check sources and verify for more difficult questions.

4. If you are a professional, having some kind of blog and subscription, whether written or video or both, is valuable to attracting clients and making friends. If you work for a dozen clients regularly, you'll find it hurts a lot less when one of them fires you or quits your service.

In fact, if you jibe well with blogging or regularly making videos, these can quickly go from a hobby to an additional source of income to a stable job. If your content is valuable enough and you make yourself a person desirable to help, then many people will be willing to pay a small amount monthly just to support you. And it's not impossible to get the kind of viewership where that adds up, if you're in the right place and doing good work.