Heres a tip : "things don't actually move that fast" It may seem like the industry is screaming along but its mainly media hype. The important things will take

Heres a tip : "things don't actually move that fast" It may seem like the industry is screaming along but its mainly media hype. The important things will take a few years to get where they need to be, I dare you to pick any ground breaking technology and I'd bet if you missed 6 months it wouldn't hurt you one bit. You'd see a few flash in the pan success stories, but mainly things just chug along. And thats the key to information overload, understanding you can just stop for a few days, a week, what ever, it won't matter. Remove the addictive nature of it. Make sure its a pleasure and not a chore. For myself I've moved from blogs to aggregators now to get the best articles. I don't need all the articles, just the best. I could go several places for that (reddit, digg, slashdot). But I come to hacker news most, primarily because the conversation threads are of a higher standard. I can learn x10 more from a thread than I can an article. I've also found curated aggregators on my iPad extremely useful, I'm talking to Zite, Flip Board, Feedly etc... theres something casual and relaxing about them. I recommend getting a tablet, I've never used an android one but I assume its just as good as my iPad.