Mostly podcasts, because they boil a week's worth of info on a particular domain down to an hour and also tell me what i'm supposed to think about it. I tried giving up hn for 6 months and didn't feel less informed. I'm here for the proceastination, not the information.
Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?
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#102Tech stuff: Hacker News Pinboard Popular https://pinboard.in/popular/ Podcasts (specifically Hanselminutes) https://hanselminutes.com/ Stackoverflow Reddit (occasionally) Food: Good Eats http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/good-eats (and I'm happy to hear it may be coming back on air soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovc2Q-zdoyM )
Good Eats is coming back? You just made my day. If they replaced Alton I won't watch, in protest
Watch the video. Pretty sure that's Alton (and his old props)
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I joined hackernews in 2010. I always thanks hn for broadening my view, thinking I would have chosen a different path if there was hn when I was in high school. and yet, after surfing hn daily for 7 years, I'm still pretty much the same, tons of half baked prototypes. maybe it's time to focus.
You may need a friend or partner of some sort to finish stuff together. Make your effort accountable to each other. Doing things alone almost always have that kind of risk.
I tried this for few times. but none of them ended well. either I helped my friends on their ideas or my friends helped on mine. and one of us will lose interest first.
there has been no single case where we, as a team, are interested in the same thing.
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#104This is how I discovered contents throughout history: * Late 80's - pre-WWW era: Books, word-of-mouth, computer magazines (Dr. Dobbs, etc), snail-mail newsletters, USENET / newsgroups on internet via shell terminal * 1990's: Web forums, Slashdot, IRC * 2000's: Slashdot, Digg, RSS feeds from blogs / Google Reader * 2010's: HN
Ahhh yes. I remember the good old days when tech books were half decent. Good times.
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#105I gave up on Twitter, as even after massive ongoing curation the signal/noise is far too low. There's no way to filter tweets from sources I'm following, and it's a constant source of anxiety leading to compulsive reloading of the feed. Other social networks are worse. Life's too short for this. I've also cut down on the web sources I follow, as information overload is a real thing, and we rapidly run into diminishin…
What international affairs podcasts do you listen to? It's an area I would like more analytical insights into.
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Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?
#106I gave up on Twitter, as even after massive ongoing curation the signal/noise is far too low. There's no way to filter tweets from sources I'm following, and it's a constant source of anxiety leading to compulsive reloading of the feed. Other social networks are worse. Life's too short for this. I've also cut down on the web sources I follow, as information overload is a real thing, and we rapidly run into diminishin…
Thanks a ton for hckr news. Great resource.
Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?
#107I gave up on Twitter, as even after massive ongoing curation the signal/noise is far too low. There's no way to filter tweets from sources I'm following, and it's a constant source of anxiety leading to compulsive reloading of the feed. Other social networks are worse. Life's too short for this. I've also cut down on the web sources I follow, as information overload is a real thing, and we rapidly run into diminishin…
Thanks a ton for hckr news. Great resource.
Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?
#108I gave up on Twitter, as even after massive ongoing curation the signal/noise is far too low. There's no way to filter tweets from sources I'm following, and it's a constant source of anxiety leading to compulsive reloading of the feed. Other social networks are worse. Life's too short for this. I've also cut down on the web sources I follow, as information overload is a real thing, and we rapidly run into diminishin…
I would add nautil.us to that list. But yeah, that's essentially the entirety of what's worth reading online in terms of traditional "news".
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
You may need a friend or partner of some sort to finish stuff together. Make your effort accountable to each other. Doing things alone almost always have that kind of risk.
I tried this for few times. but none of them ended well. either I helped my friends on their ideas or my friends helped on mine. and one of us will lose interest first. there has been no single case where we, as a team, are interested in the same thing.
Maybe you need to work with non-friends.
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Yes, probably expecting too much content to find you, all being valuable. Valuable content will be a very small minority of content. What the parent means, is that you really need to know, will end up rising from the pile. Take React as an example. A fine technology, which some might have known about them from 2015 or so, by reading HN every day etc. But you really don't have too catch them that early -- nor is there…
Maybe I have a different life to you, but content doesn't just find me in this way. Would you believe, I have never actually met another serious programmer since I started coding about 5 years ago? I don't have "colleagues" to have conversations with. I feel ridiculous even writing that.
I'm a web dev, been doing it for 5 years, and I've literally NEVER met another soul who reads HN. This might say more about the companies I choose to work for and the people I choose to hang out with, though...