HN, Economist, Amazon. What? Yes. The fact is, there is an amazing amount of high quality literature on the most amazing of topics. I'm currently on a 'I'm soon 40, I have a MSc in an STEM subject and I don't know shit about how the modern world works or was built' reading binge. Much more interesting than new stuff to consume, IMO.
Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?
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#62I 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…
Appreciate the thoughts.
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#63I've had a hard time finding a news source like yahoo news digest once it had shut down, so I've been working on a side project: http://bluebookcasedesign.com/Pages/AktaDigest.html
For tech it's all the usual; Hacker News, reddit, Also I enjoy going through GitHub trending to see what is currently popular/new.
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#64HC + some specific audio podcasts.
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#65My daily content discovery routine is a slowly mounting sense of horror.
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#66I built this site: https://engineered.at
It's like HN, but powered by hundreds of startup tech/engineering blog feeds. It pulls in some really good stuff! Not a lot of users yet, just barely getting it going so far, let me know what you think.
EDIT: Lots more planned for this site, just only able to spend free time on it:
1. Following users/messaging them privately
2. Notifications when users reply to you, follow you, etc
3. Self-curated front pages. I realize not everyone cares about all of the feeds in the site, so give the ability for people to hide certain feeds if they want.
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#67Google alerts every morning works well for me. Then Reddit and then HN.
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#68Since RSS is not a mainstream thing anymore, it is getting harder and harder. My best strategy so far is creating twitter lists on topics that I am interested in an curate them with people who are engaged in their focus area. Still tricky to discover interesting people who don't just hype their personal angle. More and more the conversation seems also to shift from Twitter to LinkedIn.
Yes, it used to be quite easy with Google RSS Reader and Feedly to keep track of the stuff thanks to RSS, but a lot is happening on not in public anymore going to Facebook Groups, LinkedIn Groups. I gave up on Twitter a year ago because to much ads and feed got too crowded too quickly but I'm going back to it and their algorithm is doing a better job at curation for now.
As former heavy RSS users, what do you think of a site like this one I put together? https://engineered.at
It sort of "hides" the RSS feeds behind a social news interface, using a ranking algo like reddit/HN.
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#69I had the same problem of finding interesting blogs to read, so made a side project - https://www.discoverdev.io Curated and tagged list of top engineering blog articles everyday! Do check it out :)
How are you handling the tagging on this? By hand, 3rd party service, algorithm?
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#70Tech 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