I built a tool to hep me find good talks, https://www.findlectures.com https://www.findlectures.com. I've been curating some of the best of these and sending th

I built a tool to hep me find good talks, https://www.findlectures.com https://www.findlectures.com. I've been curating some of the best of these and sending them out in an email (http://www.findlectures.com/emails http://www.findlectures.com/emails), which has forced me to push a lot further exploring available topics. I split my time between multiple topics, generally aiming for variety over depth, and collect recommendations for books / speakers from various places (friends, Hacker News, the evening news, etc). I've found that having multiple simultanous books or project s is helpful, because they can interact in interesting ways E.g. one author has accidental insight into the topic of a second book, for instance, or a footnote to a problem in one project solves a major problem for the other project.