More Input! 🤖

Dating myself a bit as an 80s kid, so bear with me …

If you’ve never seen Short Circuit, it’s an 80s movie about a military robot that gets struck by lightning and becomes self-aware (because… science 😝).

One of my favorite scenes is when Johnny 5 speed-reads an entire set of encyclopedias screaming, “More input! More input!”

[ For the youngsters … Yes, we really used to keep entire volumes of “reference” books on display. ]

I watched it as a kid and thought, “Whoa, that’s frickin amazing!”

I watch it now and think, “Same, buddy. Same.”

***

Recently I found myself listening to a podcast, while scrolling a blog post, that linked to a video, that recommended a newsletter, that referenced a book I’d already bought but hadn’t read.

It felt like research.

It was actually just manic digital consumption.

And I’ve caught myself in this spiral many times — tabs open, podcasts playing, YouTube queued, all in the name of “learning.”

Except I wasn’t actually learning. I was hoarding.

Then I heard Jocko Willink say something on his podcast recently that snapped me out of it:

Paraphrasing here: These days, we’re super careful about what we put into our bodies. But most people don’t think twice about what they feed their minds.

Oof. Major wake-up call. Guilty as charged.

***

We (literally) live in THE age of “more input”. Blogs, newsletters, reels, podcasts, courses, webinars, tweets, tutorials. [ Johnny 5 would have a field day! ]

So much knowledge. So much pressure to absorb it all.

BUT … input without action isn’t really learning.

It’s digital snacking.

And just like junk food, too much mindless content can make you sluggish, scattered, and unsatisfied.

***

In 2025, your priority shouldn’t be to consume more.

Your priority should be to choose what to consume, purposefully.

Research. Curate. Digest. Then close the laptop and take a mental health break.

Because at the end of the day, we’re not robots. [ Not yet, anyway … errr … that I know of. 🤣 ] We don’t need more input.

We need better output. 🤖

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When your steampunk helicopter crashes in the middle of a sandstorm, there’s no time to wait for backup.

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And then there’s the sand. Tons of sand.

Perfect.
 

 
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That’s a mindset every entrepreneur needs. We wait for the perfect pitch deck, the right hire, or more time. But survival — and success — often comes from movement in the face of scarcity.

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