Knowledge arbitrage
In finance, arbitrage is where you know of a price difference between two markets, and exploit this by selling in the higher-price market and/or buying in the lower-price market.
In knowledge work, arbitrage is where you know of an information difference between two pools of knowledge / aggregators, and exploit this by bringing the knowledge/information from one pool to another.
Examples of pools:
- Hacker News
- /r/programming
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