I feel like this is where taste comes into play though. If you have good taste, you can find the resources/people that are worth paying attention to. And similarly, you can ask the right people to point you to the right resources. No?
Relatedly, a working hypothesis of mine is that a big benefit of reading peoples blogs is that you develop an epistemic trust in them, and could then use them for reasons like this. Or maybe use them indirectly: you trust Alice, Alice thinks highly of Bob, Bob thinks Carol is a good resource on operations and recommends a given textbook, so you read a few of Carols posts, pick up the textbook, skim it, and look through the sources that the textbook cites. And it all starts with you having epistemic trust in Alice.
Sadly, it’s a leprechaun/ribbon situation.
I feel like this is where taste comes into play though. If you have good taste, you can find the resources/people that are worth paying attention to. And similarly, you can ask the right people to point you to the right resources. No?
Relatedly, a working hypothesis of mine is that a big benefit of reading peoples blogs is that you develop an epistemic trust in them, and could then use them for reasons like this. Or maybe use them indirectly: you trust Alice, Alice thinks highly of Bob, Bob thinks Carol is a good resource on operations and recommends a given textbook, so you read a few of Carols posts, pick up the textbook, skim it, and look through the sources that the textbook cites. And it all starts with you having epistemic trust in Alice.