The Trail Mix → Informational Diet Metaphor

Open a little plastic box of trail mix. Take out a Brazil nut, a hazelnut, a slice of dried dragon fruit, a fig, a date, and an almond. Count the calories and other nutritional info from all of the above. Make the case that this is sufficient for a proper snack. Note that it all fits into the palm of your hand.

Compare this healthy snack to other options — in terms of price, breakdown of profit margins, sources of each kind of food. It took a trip to the privilege store to buy it all, bring it home, and portion it into trail mix boxes ready for a hike.

And now bring it home as a bridge to an informational diet.

Your curiosity represents your genuine need for development — adjusted to your reality of many high-quality sources available to you, a natural limitation of how much you can digest at any given time, and a unique insight you can develop based on your unique makeup, history, experience and destiny.

Your informational diet is there to fuel your informational exercise program.

And by writing this now, you are doing one set of the required reps that get you closer to where you want to go.

This is 8this: the diet of exercise and the exercise of diet — as it applies to the informational diet.