A wide reading diet is only useful if the filter is strong. Without selection, more inputs create more noise, and [[Never brainstorm for a topic]] has nothing useful to start from when the pile is undifferentiated. Reading the same authors in the same areas builds confirmation bias. Breaking that pattern requires seeking out disagreement and unfamiliar territory: this is what keeps the inputs varied rather than just more of the same thing with a different byline.
What you do with the input is where the value is. [[Copying is the way it works]] is the answer when the input is worth transforming: the point isn’t to log what you found but to absorb it far enough that it changes what you make. [[Non-linear note making]] is the system that turns those transformed inputs into connections. [[Look for rabbit holes]] is the practice that deepens a strong input rather than just logging it, because a well-filtered idea is worth following further than the original article goes.