Tracing the connections of people whose ideas seem consistently interesting can help identify other people worth listening to.

“pretty pretty useful thing in this respect and you don't need to necessarily talk to people like you can get a lot of benefit from reading like like you just need to identify okay like who are the people who seem like constantly most interesting and you can also get a lot of benefit or maybe you found one person and then often that person will know some other people who are interesting and then you can like start tracing the social network so for example maybe”

“uh i know like one example i can give which i think is actually accurate is like maybe you know about daniel ellisberg so you like look for a podcast where he appears on you notice that he's appeared on 80 000 hours podcast which he has and then you notice like there are some other guests on 80 000 hours podcast so maybe there's brian caplan who”

“has also appeared”

“on the podcast and then maybe robin hansen has also appeared on the podcast and then you know maybe there are some people those other people know and then like like just tracing that kind of”

“social network and like figuring out who to listen to like that I think that can”