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Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

#51
I bookmark the personal pages/blogs of professors and follow their grad students pages/blogs in fields I'm interested in like Robert Harper's blog Existential Type. Once a week I'll go through stallman.org too, sometimes RMS will write a really good historical analysis on something in the news and also to keep up with the state of free software.

Local news I listen to the radio for a few minutes during the day, international news I read journals (through sci-hub) like Oxford's Foreign Policy Analysis journal, a good recent article to check out is Analyzing the Foreign Policy of Microstates: The Relevance of the International Patron-Client Model.

On the weekend sometimes I'll go through the NY Times weekend edition or Wall Street Journal physical copy. Daily news for me unless it's local is a waste of my time resources. As for daily content discovery it's pretty much just this site, stallman.org, and my friends who feel the need to spam text me every single article they find that I've tried to ignore to get work done.

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

#52

This is something I've recently restructured in my own life. While I am aware that reading on a laptop display does not cause any harm to your eyes (1) I rather like the entire experience of consuming longer text on e-paper. So I went out an bought a Kindle. My favorite part with the Kindle is that I can email myself articles which are interesting, as well as browse text-based websites on the experimental browser. I…

I use Instapaper for similar purpose. I set it up so it sends me 10 articles from Unread every morning in a digest form.

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

#55
I have found content on HN and if deemed worthy add it to my feedly list of blogs/sites.

Feedly is great in that you can scan headlines and mark as read and if there is something of interest read it in depth.

I don't do twitter since it seems like 99% noise or echo chamber. Same with Facebook lately other than seeing what actual people I know are up to it is just noise.

I have subscribed to a few Youtube'rs and do the same (scan titles of vids), if it is of interest I'll watch them. Mostly those are DIY types of things so at some point searching thru them will become handy depending on a project.

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

#56
I usually browse through HN & different subreddits. Random articles also get saved to Pocket, but I never actually read any of them.

There are always 'spur of the moment' articles I find throughout the day using a handy Chrome extension that gives me hand curated content everytime I open up a new tab (https://zest.is/)

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

#57
Pocket is really great for saving articles and they have some good recommendations too. I listen to a lot of podcasts like 99% Invisible, Planet Money, Reply All, Up First, WWDTM, Why Oh Why, and Embedded.fm. I also follow a lot of PhD students on Twitter who can write really well.

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

#58

I usually browse through HN & different subreddits. Random articles also get saved to Pocket, but I never actually read any of them. There are always 'spur of the moment' articles I find throughout the day using a handy Chrome extension that gives me hand curated content everytime I open up a new tab ( https://zest.is/ )

Oh, I forgot podcasts too!

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

#60
After many years of RSS (Google Reader, then Feedly), I gave up on it due to sheer volume and now get my daily fix from curated email newsletters, a mix of news and tech-related ones. This post lead me to make an inventory of them:

http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/morning-briefing-europe

https://qz.com/

https://webopsweekly.com/

https://www.finimize.com/

http://ben-evans.com/newsletter/

https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-macro/

https://labnotes.org/

https://aeon.co/

http://softwareleadweekly.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/the-interpreter

http://www.phpweekly.com/

http://www.hackernewsletter.com/

http://www.electricdreaming.com/

https://www.dpreview.com/newsletter

And a few Greek ones, might as well add them:

https://insidestory.gr/

http://factnews.gr/

http://www.georgakopoulos.org/2014/05/newsletter/

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