That's a bit of a jargony phrase isn't it? But I couldn't think of anything better.

I've been swapping notes this week with an online entrepreneur who's run nearly 300 product launches in the last year for a wide variety of businesses.

Fascinating stuff. With that amount of data she was able to know with a good degree of certainty what's really working these days and what's not. And “what's not” includes a lot of stuff you'll see recommended by well known experts.

We actually met in a Facebook group. Contributing to common discussions led to direct messages for more in depth sharing.

Weirdly, I'm finding Facebook groups are better places to learn new things these days than Linkedin. Maybe because your profile is personal people seem less likely to try to use the groups to market themselves as unfortunately seems to be the case on Linkedin these days.

My experience with groups generally is that you get more out of them if you see them as opportunities to learn rather than opportunities to market yourself. There is so much real-world insight out there being shared freely.

Same goes “offline” too. I wonder how much more people would get out of networking events if they went with the mindset “what can I learn?” rather than “what can I sell?”.

What's your “learning infrastructure”?

What groups are you a member of you learn from? What are your top sources of reliable information? Who do you turn to for new ideas?

The more experienced I get at business, the more I've come to believe that it's not “survival of the fittest”, it's “survival of the fastest learner”.