Whether you are a software engineer, a lawyer, a manager, or an entrepreneur, your value is directly correlated with how efficiently you can process new information to stay relevant in your field in an ever-accelerating world.

But there are two problems.

The first one is that today, there is simply too much information available and it's hard to extract signal from the noise.

The second problem is that knowledge ("white collar") jobs are evolving faster than the capacity of most people to learn new things. For example, today, you are a software engineer developing backend applications, and you may want to move into machine learning with all the recent and exciting advancements.

Good news: Knowledge follows the law of diminishing returns. By spending two weeks studying a topic really hard, you can assimilate the most important principles and become better than maybe 90% of the people on this plane