I find a very great deal of agreement in what you have said here. A good example of one of my firehose feeds is HackerNews. I don't actually know what proportio

I find a very great deal of agreement in what you have said here. A good example of one of my firehose feeds is HackerNews. I don't actually know what proportion of the posts I read, but I would guess it's significantly less than 10%. Sure I'm wasting some time scrolling away most of the headlines, but since one of the primary functions of a human brain is to discard irrelevant inputs, I'm able to do this pretty quickly. The reward is that I get to read articles that I would never otherwise have seen if I just followed 6 people I already agree with.