Consuming too much junk news can turn us into dopamine addicts and, generally speaking, focusing on journals or classics can render us out of touch with the contemporary world.
My question to you is, have you put any thought into the ways you consume information? If so, what have you come up with?
Books themselves are also a great resource to find other great resources. Generally things that attract your attraction are the ones which give the best ROI. Books are a great place to find this, as you can trace a source and really consume it. Books like Tools of Titans are better off as a directory for discovery rather than read end to end.
Classics are worth reading when you find yourself pacing over an idea a few times. Discussing a lot of capitalism? Pick up The Wealth of Nations sometimes. Need help getting into the flow? Read the original book on Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
I do want something that highlights good new tools and trends. Product Hunt feels a little too sponsored. HN is great, with good critical feedback, but it's biased towards the older crowd.
Facebook has been the source for 80% of my discoveries, but it's got a terrible signal-noise ratio. Only about 5% of FB is actually useful. But it gives a lot of anecdotal information about the rest of the world around me. I'd love to quit FB if possible though. A big part of my frustration with it is that dangerous misinformation is so abundant and spreads more easily than actual information. I don't see myself using FB actively in the next 5 years.
Reddit is fun, but I picked up nothing useful from my time there.
Browsing foreign job ads is a good way to see what's going on in the rest of world, and where the trends are flowing. There's a tendency for people to cargo cult tech that's just popular in their area, but this is a good way of seeing patterns.