I disagree.
Your post is the total opposite opinion of the article.
Trust others, that would free you to accomplish.
How are you going to accomplish something without spending energy and time on it?
Both approaches are wrong in the sense that they are reductions to absurd.
-Everyone is lying, doubt everything, think about
everything
vs
-Trust everything so you have time to accomplish (by
thinking I guess)
The right hand approach would be, think about things in the proportion they are important to you.
Edit: add example
You would not spend the same amount of time or energy making sure you are not being scammed on some site that sells you the product you want to buy at half the price (e.g. 3bay.com or amazing.com) vs reading google news.
Edit2:
"Always doubt the media" is bad advice. It's similar to "always doubt your parents"
this is totally wrong, your parents (most of the time) would want to see you thrive; news on the other hand want to tell you anything to keep you on the channel to get more views and more money.
Author of the post on Medium is trying to get some fame, using first approach from your list. We can't be specialists in all fields, and journalists can't - it's just one case where knowledge of the Internet helped some guy to find some info. "News should be checked by experts" would be good title, "don't trust nobody, check everything" is absurd title.
Sure, we can't all be specialists in all fields, but in this day and age, if your job is primarily to investigate, examine and digest facts, not being able to use the internet at the level that is presented in the article is going to be holding you back.
The quoted articles all went out of their way to ask the question without bothering to answer it. What happened? Did the journalists not think it was an important enough question to investigate (and if so, why even include the question)? Had they spent an hour or two they could have figured this out or found someone who could help them out with it.
How are you going to accomplish something without spending energy and time on it?
Both approaches are wrong in the sense that they are reductions to absurd.
The right hand approach would be, think about things in the proportion they are important to you.Edit: add example
You would not spend the same amount of time or energy making sure you are not being scammed on some site that sells you the product you want to buy at half the price (e.g. 3bay.com or amazing.com) vs reading google news.
Edit2:
"Always doubt the media" is bad advice. It's similar to "always doubt your parents"
this is totally wrong, your parents (most of the time) would want to see you thrive; news on the other hand want to tell you anything to keep you on the channel to get more views and more money.