I get what you're saying. Even this exchange we're having is not productive in the truer sense of the word. But I do think titles of articles here are for the

I get what you're saying. Even this exchange we're having is not productive in the truer sense of the word. But I do think titles of articles here are for the most part honest and direct, and that should provide some decent filter for avoiding tech gossip. Like, "Correcting the Record from my Divorce" on Huffington Post will pretty clearly not link to an article that is edifying in the way that you want. Funny about the PG article... I've been coworking a bit and some of the guys have put up multiple barriers to accessing Hacker News. I'm moving towards that, too. The illusion that I'm getting things done by reading tech related articles a couple hours a day is, er, being disillusioned.