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Recently I've tried to make my procrastination more useful, and read random Wikipedia articles instead browsing news sites. Let's see if the habit sticks.
American Scientist (distinct from Scientific American) [https://www.americanscientist.org/] for science, engineering and technology.
Foreign Affairs [https://www.foreignaffairs.com/] for international relations and politics.
although I actually switched back to reading these (and others) in ink-on-paper format, which I've found helps me focus much better.
EDIT: Also, Philosophy Now [https://philosophynow.org/] for more abstract ideas.
These are bimonthly publications, and all worth paying money for.
Daily - Mostly Tech / Science. I love hacker news as it covers basic science as well. From discovery of planets, to Gene editing. Hacker News :) http://techmeme.com/ https://slashdot.org/ Weekly - World http://kottke.org/ https://www.edge.org/ Youtube App on Ipad, Subscription to Joe Rogen, Tim Ferris, and many others Podcasters like these mostly point out to any random topic under the sun, and the discussion is Deep…
You need http://skimfeed.com in your life.
Instead look at those places that have something special and make you come back. They all have some differentiating factor. The WSJ from time to time produces high quality non-redundant content. The comments or content produced by users on HN and reddit are sometimes better than the news elsewhere.
Curation and the user base confer a site personality. This is why places like HN or reddit are so popular. Reddit offers a very high degree of segmentation to users through subreddit subscriptions. This allows users with perhaps very different personalities to get along by only focusing on things they have in common. Not only that, it incentives users to create, share and enjoy content together.
Y combinator has a true commitment to provide a simple platform to a user niche they are interested in. In contrast to the laissez faire curation approach of reddit, the strategy of HN is not as broad but for this specific niche is of higher quality. Although sometimes HN is used for Y combinator's purposes, they don't abuse it and many times the interests are aligned with most of their user base.
Hacker News, Marginal Revolution and the Financial Times. Reddit mostly for leisure, but occasionally also for knowledge and inspiration. Recently I've tried to make my procrastination more useful, and read random Wikipedia articles instead browsing news sites. Let's see if the habit sticks.
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I visit n-gate.com weekly. I am not very well-aware of stuff outside css/js and lot of people here talk confidently about stuff they have no clue of, unopposed. n-gate reminds me how little people on this site know stuff outside of css/js/business. Rest are clueless wannabes trying to one-up each other. My favorite comment will always be- somebody mentioned that Microsoft Band needs a realtime OS so someone proposed…
Further down you replied to someone else complaining about how other's work is belittled, then you write this
> somebody mentioned that Microsoft Band needs a realtime OS so someone proposed javascript vm. And there were 10 other people talking about it seriously.
I am not sure if this is bait or lack of self awareness, though I'd lean towards bait, considering you are also worried about downvotes.
news.ycombinator.com
or to the Economist (which I order-but I tend to listen most of the articles as the audio comes free for subscribers and is of excellent quality).
I try to read books nowadays more than random blogposts. Makes my monkeybrain happier (and I secretly wish wiser).