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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?
#72This has been asked in a variety of more targeted ways, such as:
Favorite Podcasts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9207360 Favorite Tech Podcasts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747563
Mailing Lists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14086259
etc etc
Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?
#73I regularly read Adrian Colyer's blog. -> blog.acolyer.org. Every single day. Simply reading through his reviews has increased my knowledge about Computer Science by leaps and bounds. Also, I see for new uploads in "Emerging Technologies" and "Hardware Architecture" section of Arxiv everyday. My daily ritual.
the arxiv tip is a very good one indeed
You might also like http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/
Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?
#74Breaking the cycle of compulsive checking and distracted browsing is important to me.
There are two places I consume content:
1. When working at the computer, I read from Pocket
(or Kindle Cloud Reader), and
2. After hours, I read only my Kindle Paperwhite.
- Stream RSS feeds (HN[*], Xkcd, local news, etc.) to Pocket
(possible with IFTTT)
- Add links from coworkers to Pocket
- Buy books for Kindle
- Subscribe to The Economist[†] weekly on Kindle
- Use Pocket to Kindle nightly[‡]
p2k creates an e-book from random unread articles in Pocket
archives them, then delivers to Kindle at a set time.
* I filter HN by points using https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/
† The Economist has a "The World This Week" section that sums up the world's politics and business from the previous week with a paragraph for each subject, and it's more refined and less sensational than the daily news cycle. It's enough to keep me in the loop, and there are more interesting articles deeper within the magazine.
Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?
#75I don't really have an answer for the source of good content but could tell you one of my logistical solutions.
I use BetterTouchTool to remap the "Three Finger Click" gesture to my Chrome keyboard shortcut for the "Save to Pocket" Extension and the "Four Finger Click" gesture to "Clip to Evernote"...
As I browse HN, read emails, and generally surf the web, I identify what content I might be interested in reading or might be useful later and click accordingly. Pocket for things I want stripped of styling and organized in a nice little FIFO list I can quickly pull up on my phone while waiting in line at Costco. Evernote for things I want the presentation in kept intact and searchable
My time at my workstation with a full keyboard and 4 monitors is a much better time to find content while processing content I could easily do on mobile during the day's numerous downtimes: listening on the ride to work, on the bike at the gym...
Pocket has a useful "Listen To" feature with variable speed settings and some other simple thoughtful additions.
Evernote for all its problems has the "Jump To" quick search and reliable multi-device platform-agnostic syncing secret sauce.
The system feels really good when I'm perusing an article with a bunch of hyperlinks to content that I should probably read eventually but will distract me from the task at hand if I were to follow them now.
Thanks for asking this, I love hearing about other peoples solutions.
Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?
#76OFFTOPIC: avoid it at all cost. Energy, time, attention, focus = the most valuable resources out there. Valuable content will find you anyway.
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.
Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?
#77My strategy pretty much consists of subscribing to good creators and curators across all channels. I have a bookmark folder (aptly named 1) which opens: - My Gmail "newsletters" filter view - My AOL Reader - HackerNews - MetaFilter - My Facebook "Must read" user list - My Twitter "Must read" list - My Reddit "Must read" list - My Youtube "Subscriptions" page In each one of these there's my selection of profiles that…
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A satire page that reviews HN's weekly top posts in a very condescending manner (the humor to me very much welcome but you may be put off by it)
Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?
#78Mattermark Daily (https://mattermark.com/category/mattermark-daily/). Best curated startup/VC news, once a day in your inbox, done in 5 minutes or less. No affiliation.
Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?
#79OFFTOPIC: avoid it at all cost. Energy, time, attention, focus = the most valuable resources out there. Valuable content will find you anyway.
Valueless content finds you. Worthwhile content you really have to go looking for, or have a good social network funneling stuff to you. My own answer is mostly HN, Twitter (including a couple of people/bots who are great link sources), and a mailing list of some old friends for this purpose. The latter is very good and low volume; eg latest post was from 18 July on org structure for software projects and lists https…
> My own answer is mostly HN
But why should valuable content always be centered around "Hackers"?
What news sources would we be reading if we were physicists, or medical doctors, and wouldn't those be interesting even if we don't have these professions?
Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?
#80I 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 :)
Looks like a really nice project, but since you've been running it for a month now, I'd recommend switching to a weekly post. Otherwise, I think you might get burned or start skipping some days. Weekly is much more manageable in the long run.
Most of it is automated - I just do a final quality check. Takes about half an hour a day. Ideal case is to automate it completely via ML. It's just that it's hard to create a model that can tell a good blogpost from a spammy one. So as of now little bit of manual intervention is required.