It’s a daily ritual that covers one of my core needs. That need is staying up to date with my industry. At the partner level of professional firms you are expec

It’s a daily ritual that covers one of my core needs. That need is staying up to date with my industry. At the partner level of professional firms you are expected to keep up to date with your industry news. When I was focused on US income tax, that was very easy. There was a few dedicated portals I would check each morning to make sure I caught all of the latest trends in the IRS, treasury, and other related entities (we did things called provisions in the context of public company audits requiring its own upkeep). I transitioned to fin tech (web development specifically) almost two decades ago and early on one of my biggest struggles was keeping up with the state of the industry. I was checking dozens of portals and wasn’t even certain that I wasn’t missing anything because sometimes they would update the documentation without updating the version number! Anyway one day I was at a Ruby meet up and joined a discussion where a senior was mentoring a group of juniors and he advised they all read HN daily to keep up to date on what technologies to pick. I checked it out, it served that need any my need, so I never looked back. All these years later I still start my day off every morning with a perusal of the first few pages looking for Ruby/React/Python(in the context of vis like matplotlib) articles and then consider myself up to date enough (unlikely any major development I’m unaware of). And of course I come back multiple times per day looking for life style discussions simply because I feel the level of discourse here is generally much better than similar topics when discussed on Reddit.