General interest/articles/websites: I choose a few aggregate newsletters, a few specialist pages, and combine them all via RSS. I use NewsBlur as my reader, and

General interest/articles/websites: I choose a few aggregate newsletters, a few specialist pages, and combine them all via RSS. I use NewsBlur as my reader, and kill-the-newsletter to convert subscription newsletters into RSS feeds. This gives me one place to check a few times each day, rather than constantly checking the sites individually. Books: I have a To Read list on my public library account where I keep track of books I want to read. Normally when I'm at the library I'll check to see which of those is available(a feature of their webapp) and grab a few. News: I subscribe to Up First by NPR and PBS NewHour podcasts. This gives me a little over an hour of news each day, 10-15 minutes in the morning and an hour in the evening. This keeps me in the loop without feeling like I need to constantly be reading more. Social Media: I only use instagram, and I only follow my friends and artists/craftspeople that work in media that I have personal interest. Takeaway: I built a source of inputs that I value and lean heavily on those. Essentially, I have a small pool of information to consume, rather than drown in the ocean of what's available. I also routinely prune all of these sources, adding a few and removing a few.