Newer Isn't Better
Newer isn’t better, and often is actively worse. Unfortunately, many industries can only survive by providing us with a constant stream of new and exciting information or products - so we need to learn to sort the useful from the useless in real time.
Following The Money
There's a lot of free services out there - but almost all of them are making money somehow. One valuable skill for sorting the good info from the bad is the skill of "following the money", figuring out how these free services make their money. Money has a powerful ability to bias the type and quality of information that people provide.