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How do you stay up to date on what’s important aka what will make you money without spending way too much time consuming noise?
There is too munch information being created every day to possibly keep up. Pick a couple sources you like and forget about the rest. If something is important enough, and you happen to miss it, someone will tell you about it.
My solution is information streams. I set up various stream that surface important information so that I don’t need to seek it. It saves me an absurd amount of time.
This includes people who write to me when specific things in their field change, a WhatsApp group of relocation consultants, and monitoring lots of German laws for changes with Wachete. I also follow the monthly changes gazette from the German government. This covers 90% of what I need to know.
I am now designing a tool to gather feedback from my readers about unobservable things such as the processing times at the immigration office. This would be insanely valuable to people who apply for a residence permit.
In summary, I automate the surfacing of important information, and make sure the updates come at a reasonable frequency, with as little noise as possible.
For everything else, I just don’t care. Knowing the latest and greatest in tech does not affect my income. I can build valuable things with old, boring tech.
HN has smart folk but it's particularly bad for web3, AI, and startups. Reddit is below average on everything, but better than HN on those topics. Lemmy tends to lean more towards web3 and FOSS. TikTok covers newer things. YouTube goes deepest, but you don't always need depth. The shorter the video, the more noise it needs.
Pull over push (I choose when I want to see what's new, no email/notification driven stuff)