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How to ThinkIn the Age of AI
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Conduct scheduled recurring audits of information sources…

Conduct scheduled recurring audits of information sources to counteract subscription inertia and source degradation.

Why This Is a Principle

This follows from The nervous system habituates to repeated, predictable… (habituation to repeated stimuli), People disproportionately stick with default options even… (people stick with defaults), and When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good… (when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be good). It prescribes a maintenance practice—quarterly review—that counteracts automatic adaptation to degrading signal quality. The principle is about system maintenance, not the foundational fact that systems degrade.