The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Too many people think in labels.

There are hordes of thoughtful journalists... [I]t is just that prominent media journalism is a thoughtless process of providing the noise that captures people's attention and there exists no mechanism for separating the two.

be. So I follow the Lindy effect as a guide in selecting what to read: books that have been around for ten years will be around for ten more; books that have been around for two millennia should be around for quite a bit of time, and so forth.