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

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Post by jansho »

I have the standard list of newspapers and magazines that I browse right after hitting the morning alarm.

Instagram for design. A few other art publications..

My bookcase is also extremely well-stocked. Not that it reflects my intellect - most of them are unread! But it makes an excellent discovery engine as I can pick up any book of any subject I happen to fancy in moment x. Which is why as amazing Google is, it can never be that kind of discovery engine, heheheh.

And I rationalise to myself that surely, given half a century of dipping in and out, I'll eventually read all of them.

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

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Post by deepakkarki »

mrleinad wrote: post #47
deepakkarki wrote: post #11

I 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.

For example it took me about 15 min to publish the links today. Just done, have a look :)

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

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Post by otterpro »

This 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

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

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Post by ashark »

pjc50 wrote: post #27
stefek99 wrote: post #18

OFFTOPIC: 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…

> Valueless content finds you. Worthwhile content you really have to go looking for, or have a good social network funneling stuff to you.

Really valuable content usually comes in batches, points directly to other valuable content (i.e. good things tend to discuss and cite other good things), and/or is long form. There's no need to look for valuable content every day, or even every week. It might be entertaining, but it's not a good use of time. Exceptions for people who have to keep up with news-cycle garbage and up-to-the-minute trends, of course. Those poor souls.

I waste more time than I should on Internet garbage (ahem) and sometimes I find good new stuff, but if I stopped doing that it'd still take me years to get through the great stuff I've already found but haven't yet engaged with. Plus many things could do with a second look. I'm 100% certain that'd be a better use of my time than looking for even more good stuff on the Internet.

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

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Post by kthejoker2 »

jonathansizz wrote: post #32

I 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.

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

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Post by wiremine »

If you're interested in developing good content habits, and not just content tooling, I highly recommend The Information Diet. Short read and very thoughtful. You won't likely agree with everything (I didn't), but it's worth your time:

http://informationdiet.com/

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

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Post by jrvarela56 »

Reddit and HN. There's more quality content in those two sources than I can consume. My problem is the opposite: how can I manage/organise the huge amount of stuff that's out there. Posted this to get some input from HNers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14919027
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