Practical guide
Build a sustainable information diet
Build from decisions and evidence roles. Choose primary sources, specialists, dissent, and local context for each responsibility, set an intake budget, and review the list as the work changes.[1][2]
Why this gets difficult
An information diet assembled by popularity will reflect the platforms and professions with the loudest output, not the reader's responsibilities, blind spots, or available attention.[1][2]
A practical way through
- List the decisions, obligations, communities, and risks the reader owns.[1][2]
- Assign each source a distinct role and remove duplicates.[1][2]
- Choose daily, weekly, or alert cadence based on consequence and update speed.[1][2]
- Review exclusions and rotate discovery sources without letting exploration dominate the core.[1][2]
An example
The situation: A healthcare leader follows broad business news but lacks local public-health, regulatory, and clinical evidence sources.[1][2]
What changes: Official and primary sources become the base, specialist analysis fills interpretation gaps, and general business coverage shrinks.[1][2]
What you get: The diet becomes smaller and more connected to patient, compliance, and operating decisions.[1][2]
What to watch for
Sources worth keeping
How Scottie helps
Scottie can rank the chosen information diet against clear reader priorities and reveal excluded items that suggest the source boundary needs correction.[3]