If your goal is genuinely to find thoughtful and informational content, daily internet browsing won't be the place to get it. The RSS hand-picked blog approach

If your goal is genuinely to find thoughtful and informational content, daily internet browsing won't be the place to get it. The RSS hand-picked blog approach is mostly going to provide you comfort food that mimics the real thing. Sticking with blogs means you stick exclusively with the sort of ideas that end up in blogs, for better or for worse. That's not even mentioning the English-language cultural filter. The long form articles or "serious" publications also suffer from a similar problem, in that the fact that you pay for them or that the journalist spent some thoughtful time on these pieces is no guarantee that you will be getting something truly valuable. Or you might be getting the sense that you are doing something important, while actually just gobbling up disconnected tidbits which don't really amount to anything concrete. This is what makes HN such a sophisticated trap. Ultimately, reading (non-junk) books and reading widely is more or less the only solution. Unfortunately, finding which books you'd want to read is something you'll have to figure out on your own because it is intimately connected to the precise parameters of your own life.