Bruno Werneck de Almeida
Becoming Very Serious

Data

Data

The fine balance between quantity and quality of information is difficult to strike. The structure below allows me to filter data in a hierarchical fashion and create a repository of vetted material.

Feedly - http://feedly.com/brunoswerneck

  • Purpose: Aggregate blogs and publications I would normally access directly.
  • Method: In Feedly I work through my most read collections first (Investment Banking--> Financial Technology --> Venture Capital).
    • I use the extension within Feedly to save pieces to Pocket for later perusal.
  • Tip: I highly recommend sharing your Feedly collection publicly. It offers others access to your curated blogroll and helps you reference your primary sources more easily.

Twitter - https://twitter.com/brunoswerneck

  • Purpose: Daily data download and real-time news.
  • Method: I only access Twitter through lists in order to segment my information (FinTech Community, FinTech People, FinTech Venture Capital). This helps me contextualize what would otherwise be a noisy stream of consciousness into a neater, thematic process.
    • Lists are managed through Twitlistmanager and analytics through SocialBro.
    • Hootsuite is used for content management and Buffer for post scheduling.
    • Nuzzel crowdsources top stories.
    • I favorite Tweets I enjoy, would like to respond to, or contain interesting links both for social signaling ("thanks for checking me out" / "I am, in fact, checking you out") and information aggregation. Links are automatically saved to Pocket using If This Then That.
  • Tip: I unfavorite Tweets once a week for two reasons: First, for clean presentation (I think of Twitter as a dynamic micro-blog). Second, to respond to material I may have missed. 
    • Pmarca's shoutout stays put because, well...pmarca.

AngelList - https://angel.co/bruno-s-werneck and

CrunchBase - https://www.crunchbase.com/person/bruno-werneck

  • Purpose: Aggregate information regarding venture capital and startups.
  • Method: I read through the CrunchBase Daily to get a sense of top funding rounds and check out the Recent Follow Activity once a week for more in-depth coverage.
    • AngelList provides robust investments, transactions, and positions coverage and a daily news roundup.
  • Tip: I favorite organizations or people I would like to track in CrunchBase. This adds relevant organizations, people, and products to my news stream and, through CrunchBase Sync, automatically does the same in AngelList.

Quora - http://www.quora.com/Bruno-S-Werneck

  • Purpose: Source primary material from content leaders. Quora is much more useful as a publishing platform and branding tool than an information site.
  • Method: I generally do a weekly scroll through my Top Stories to follow or answer interesting queries. I use the Topics function to focus on relevant subject areas.
  • Tip: The search algorithm uses read articles to improve its recommendation and news feed functionalities. 

Pocket

  • Purpose: Temporary repository for online materials.
  • Method: I work through my Pocket queue on a periodic basis. I delete articles I do not wish to keep and favorite then archive those I do. Favorited articles are snipped to my Evernote .Inbox folder automatically using If This Then That.
  • Tip: I use Feedly to source new information when data service is available and Pocket to review the information when it is not.

If This Then That - https://ifttt.com/p/brunoswerneck/shared

Evernote

  • Purpose: Permanent database for all electronic materials.
  • Method: Articles are either snipped through Pocket using If This Then That or directly in Feedly using the Evernote extension.
    • I send all articles into the .Inbox folder and sort them once a month. During the sorting process I reread pieces that are particularly relevant and tag them according to their primary subject matter. I use secondary tags such as Blog, Follow-Up or Tweet depending on future actions I may want to take with the piece.
  • Tip: I use the share functionality to create public folders for financial technology and venture capital. This allows others to access and search through the materials I have aggregated.