Comment by Retra
10 years ago
I think that's really a matter of what level of mastery you are looking to achieve, and how broadly you intend to achieve it. If you're looking to be the best of the best in one single, narrow subject, you might quickly run out of <50% shit resources and need to dig into some really bad stuff to find little, rare bits of good knowledge.
If you want to be the best of the best in one single, narrow subject, then listening to what other people think is useless. Rely on direct experience instead; perform your own experiments, test out your own ideas. That's what it means to be the "best of the best": you're the one injecting new data into the ecosystem.