How do I collect and filter investment information?

A reader asked in a comment:

With so much information every day, it's very chaotic. How can I use my daily time to focus on key information? What apps, social tools, and people should I follow to avoid wasting time on ineffective information?

The two apps I use the most right now are Twitter and WeChat.

Twitter is mainly used to find information about the crypto ecosystem; WeChat is primarily used to find information in traditional investment areas (like the stock market).

In these apps, filtering various information, I feel that the most important and effective way is to establish my own judgment standards and value orientation.

For example, in daily life:

If I have social anxiety, I naturally wouldn't go to various social events that I can choose to attend or not. No matter how well-promoted or cool those events are, they won't attract me. I would only go to gatherings with close friends.

I don't need anyone to advise me; I can make that judgment myself because I subconsciously act according to my own value orientation.

This applies equally to obtaining information in the crypto ecosystem or any investment-related field.

In these areas, my orientation is very clear:

I know that short-term trading and technical analysis methods are completely unsuitable for me, so I naturally filter out this information and its sources while browsing.

For example, on Twitter, whenever I see any account discussing information primarily based on emotional outbursts and short-term prices (like "the price went up today, I'm awesome; the price dropped tomorrow, I'm cursing; the price has dropped recently, why isn't the team pumping it; the price will go up next time, should I follow the whales; this coin went up today because of big whales, that coin dropped tomorrow because of dumping…"), I block or mute such accounts.

Among these types of accounts, there is also a special category. Typically, in every round of crypto market trends, some emerging popular fields (like this round's inscriptions, AI + Crypto) will appear. In these new popular fields, some suddenly emerging new accounts may provide valuable trending information because they have discovered opportunities or have unique insights into the field.

For these accounts, most of them also talk a lot about short-term prices, but I can tolerate that and temporarily follow their accounts.

However, I have noticed a pattern with these accounts: generally, once the hype of this round passes, the value of the information they provide will drop sharply, and eventually, they will only discuss short-term prices. At that point, I will block or mute them.

So now, I mainly follow three types of information sources on Twitter:

1. Daily news;
2. Accounts I have followed for a long time that mainly discuss the value of a project, the potential significance of an event, or the impact of an action…
3. Accounts I temporarily follow that can provide valuable information in the areas I am interested in.

After this filtering, the new information I need to check on Twitter every day is not much, and I don't spend too much time on Twitter.

WeChat is similar; after filtering, the public accounts I follow long-term are reduced to two categories:

1. Daily news;
2. Public accounts that discuss project value and value judgment.

Everyone's time, energy, and attention are very precious. With this method, we can use our valuable resources to obtain the most valuable information and filter out useless information.