What is up everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and CEO of Morning Brew coming to you with the latest episode of the Founders Journal.

My daily diary, where I go live for the world to talk about the biggest things happening

behind the scenes at Morning Brew, the biggest wins, the biggest losses, some of

the biggest learnings from conversations with really smart people.

Today is version two of the media consumption diet

episode from last week.

So for those of you that didn't listen to that episode,

we talked about the importance of putting good content. of you put

that didn't listen to that episode. We talked about the importance of putting good content

in your brain in the same way you put good food into your body. Let's hop into it.

All right, give me a quick recap of the media diet. What is it?

Yeah, I mean, so the idea of the media diet

was that in order to form smart thoughts,

in order to make smart decisions,

it's all about the inputs, the inputs drives the outputs. And so at the end of the day

when you are as a professional asking yourself, you know, why can't you think more strategically about things?

Why can't you think more critically? I think the best place to start is in the beginning.

What are the inputs you're giving yourself? And as it relates to making decisions,

what are the inputs of content whose essays, podcasts, videos are you consuming and do you believe those have the right ingredients to make you a smarter, better thinker.

And so I shared some of my favorite thinkers, I shared my media diet, and I think the comparison to your

normal diet where you put good food in your body and then you have to be able to metabolize

it by thinking about the content you're consuming is something that I spent a lot of time thinking about and so this is this is the sequel to that conversation

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