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Real world meetups about subjects you're interested in will have better value than most online stuff. Read books about things that interest you, and use Goodre
by boboralice 4y ago
Real world meetups about subjects you're interested in will have better value than most online stuff.
Read books about things that interest you, and use Goodreads as a source of inspiration for future reading material.
Get off Facebook. Either learn to optimize Twitter as someone else suggested, or get off there too, because it's easy for it to become an echo chamber if you aren't smart about how you use it. I prefer Mastodon because if you choose a good instance there's less fluff and you're not funneled into your own echo chamber.
Where possible, I use special-interest-focused-forums (yes, old-fashioned forums still exist) instead of Reddit. Again, some parts of Reddit are good, but a lot have horribly biased moderation. It depends on the subject.
Start a blog and link it to your social media. I've found participating in blogging challenges has helped me build readership and find new blogs to read, and those blogs have helped me find meetups or conferences in subjects I'm interested in. Some of those have required travel, but the travel has been worth it.
- Something1234 4y agoWhere do you find blogging challenges?
- millzlane 4y agoI googled blogging challenges. Then found a "30 day blogging challenge" keyword. Then found this: https://30dayblogchallenge.com/ https://30dayblogchallenge.com/
- Aromasin 4y agoTo piggy back on the optimising twitter comment, does anyone know how to disable recommended content on Twitter? I keep getting people telling me that I'm missing out, and I've fine tuned my feed so it's a bunch of scientists and engineers who's work I'm interested in, but Twitter keeps giving me content from people they follow, or popular topics. It seems every third tweet is something I simply have zero interest in. Is it really that valuable?
- jesterson 4y agoLast time I checked there was absolutely no way for it. They want to keep users stick to screen, no choice for it.
- fold3 4y agoyou could use a third-party client like fritter[0] for android or cawbird[1] for linux, then you'll just get a traditional feed much like a rss feed with no ads. If you happen to use an old machine it will run much faster too There should be some for macos and windows but I haven't looked it up yet [0]https://fritter.cc/ https://fritter.cc/ [1]https://flathub.org/apps/details/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird https://flathub.org/apps/details/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird
- lemonade5117 4y agoThat makes sense. Do you have any advice on finding local meetups?