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I cram everything that has an RSS feed into https://kindle4rss.com/ where I can read the feeds daily as an ebook on my kindle (including HN Best). WhatsApp / Telegram cover my "real-time" needs. Most important for me is to have digital wellbeing limits configured for social media. Recently stumbled upon https://github.com/piqoni/matcha which is a Go RSS reader with a GPT-3 option for summarizing certain RSS feeds.
WhatsApp creates silent notifications free of vibration and popups for chats with individuals. Nothing for group chats.
Social media apps (like Instagram and Twitter) have 5 min/day timers.
- HN Best, so it's only 2-3 new items a day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35682630
- Kottke.org
- Daringfireball
I love RSS for this. I go to one RSS aggregator that I self-host (trivial, via FreshRSS [1]) that has subscriptions to things like: Fun: comics, pictures, APOD, some hobby reddit threads (fun fact: reddit presents pretty much anything including search queries as RSS if you append .rss) Journals: professional journals in my field Local: Neighborhood blogs, local news, utility company blog, local police crime notes, we…
Out of curiosity... Does anyone use the rss reader in MS Outlook? I know MS is supposed to pack a lot of features to catch as much audience as possible, but are there enough people still using it to this day?
I used thunderbird like that a lot but everytime I needed to read or send an email for something productive I'd see that there's a new post somewhere and I'd check it.
I still go on Reddit and HN throughout the day, but it's cut down a bit since I have these digests to review at designated times (for me it's 7am and 3pm). It's made a big difference to convert 'active' scrolling with 'passive' review of something in my inbox with a finite amount of links.
For me it’s: -HN many times a day (probably too much to be healthy as it’s my default “I’ve got 60 seconds to spare”) -Reddit used to be many times a day but since they turned off compact mode on mobile it’s maybe once a day using old.Reddit.com on my phone and really not like how I have to zoom to read stuff -gmail as workflow for personal chores and work GitHub/GitLab, maybe 5 times a day -discord once or twice a d…
Okay, this is embarrassing but I feel the need to contribute as a catharsis. LEISURE TIME 1. WSJ: the OpEd section is neocon trash, but the journalistic content is well sourced, objective, and interesting. 2. NYTimes: probably the highest quality journalism in the English-speaking world. 3. Economist: slower news cycle, more deeply analytical and intellectual than WSJ or NYT. 4. Bloomberg: nice in-depth stories about…
Not to be funny but aren't you supposed to delegate what you don't need to be spending time doing as CEO?
Daily political news each AM: Heather Cox Richardson (via Facebook) for historical context, and https://www.electoral-vote.com for tactical analysis.
And I'll scan my RSS feeds.
Once I get "to work" (I'm still mostly remote) if nothing's on fire I scan HN and open a bunch of tabs that I'll work through in idle moments during the day.
At or after lunch I'll check nytimes.com to see if anything really big happened in the real world.
Late in the day I'll usually check nymag.com for gossipy pop culture and local NYC news and reviews, and TV recaps.
If you are still trying to "summarize" and consume more faster and better and be on top, personally I believe, you are on the wrong quest. There are too many advices on the Internet already but ask yourself the right question first. Once you have some clarify, the answers are pretty simple.
There will always be someone/something better, faster, prettier, cuter, bigger/nicer car, better/nicer/more house, spouse/partner - ask yourself where you want to stop and reduce to a very few tiny sets of focus.
I think I'm being cheesy and philosophical and I'm not good with it but I hope you get the gist of what where I'm trying to point.
I have stopped "Catching up" quite a while back, ever since I kinda started realizing that I don't have to be amongst the first to know. I wrote about it in 2014 and also have directed many a people who came to me asking -- https://brajeshwar.com/2014/missing-step-productivity-activi...
Okay, this is embarrassing but I feel the need to contribute as a catharsis. LEISURE TIME 1. WSJ: the OpEd section is neocon trash, but the journalistic content is well sourced, objective, and interesting. 2. NYTimes: probably the highest quality journalism in the English-speaking world. 3. Economist: slower news cycle, more deeply analytical and intellectual than WSJ or NYT. 4. Bloomberg: nice in-depth stories about…
Chomsky was asked about what to read and mentioned the financial papers as a great source of foreign news because you can't succeed in business with a fake version of reality. He called out the WSJ by name but said the opinion section was "the funnies."