It’s not a good idea to rely too heavily on a single source, even a good one. Every source will have some errors, and ideally you want to follow multiple sources whose errors are relatively uncorrelated.
Upvoted for the important consideration, but your own brain is a source of errors for which it’s hard to decorrelate, so is it really worse (or worse enough to justify the additional costs of the alternative) to just trust Zvi instead of your own judgement/integration of diverse sources?
ETA: Oh, I do read the comments here so that helps to catch Zvi’s errors, if any.
Note that my own blog also has an active comments section that has some good people in it (and some not so good of course), if you want to watch for errors without checking other sources directly.
I do think that if there’s something that impacts your decisions a lot, you should do your own investigations too!
It’s not a good idea to rely too heavily on a single source, even a good one. Every source will have some errors, and ideally you want to follow multiple sources whose errors are relatively uncorrelated.
Upvoted for the important consideration, but your own brain is a source of errors for which it’s hard to decorrelate, so is it really worse (or worse enough to justify the additional costs of the alternative) to just trust Zvi instead of your own judgement/integration of diverse sources?
ETA: Oh, I do read the comments here so that helps to catch Zvi’s errors, if any.
Note that my own blog also has an active comments section that has some good people in it (and some not so good of course), if you want to watch for errors without checking other sources directly.
I do think that if there’s something that impacts your decisions a lot, you should do your own investigations too!