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What's up everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.

Welcome back to Founder's Journal, My Personal Audio Diary, where I give you the business builder,

the tools you need to think better in order to build better.

Whether that's building a business, a team or a new product.

Today, I'm talking about a supercharged strategy for note-taking.

Let's hop into it.

As a builder, your lifeblood is information.

Like a chef who needs ingredients to cook, you need information to inform the content you create

and the decisions you make in the world.

And despite how important the information we consume is, we treat it like shit.

We put bad information into our body, even when we know it's bad for us.

And we just treat good information like shit once we have it.

We don't do anything with it, we don't save it anywhere, and we force ourselves to remember it,

which is impossible in a world of information abundance.

This is like a chef buying great cuts of steak at the market,

and forgetting to refrigerate it so it stays fresh to cook and turn into a great dish later.

Now, let's use me as the example.

Last week, I had a catch up with my co-founder Austin.

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