TLDR: Founders who keep gathering information rarely solve their hardest problems; writer Tim Denning argues that deploying a minimum viable amount of knowledge, acting, and learning from the result beats endless research, and reversible decisions make that shift safe.
Tim Denning argues information is a false god, not a solution
In an essay titled “Your entire life will change when you realize you need more action, not information,” writer Tim Denning makes a blunt claim: “The false god is that gathering more information will solve our biggest problems. That’s clearly a lie.” His target is the quiet belief, common among founders and operators, that one more book, course, or competitor teardown stands between them and a breakthrough.
Denning frames the urge to keep researching as a chemical problem, not an intellectual one. He calls the dopamine that comes from gathering information “a dangerous drug,” a framing he credits to writer Sahil Bloom. The pull is real because consuming feels like progress. It produces the sensation of momentum without the risk of being wrong.
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