"Grazing" versus "learning" - for lack of better terms is for me a more useful distinction. Probably because of the volume that we consume, there are each day 2

"Grazing" versus "learning" - for lack of better terms is for me a more useful distinction. Probably because of the volume that we consume, there are each day 2-3 "fine articles" that I find really interesting and worth digesting - reading at least with attention, sometimes "in depth" which to me means following some references, looking up related things. By contrast there are more "useful comments", going all the way to an actual expert chiming in with a truly valuable clarification or take on a sloppy, borderline useless article. All of this to be contrasted with "grazing", or doom-scrolling, say on tikTok - which clearly some people find valuable. And for me the question is always how to make it "more active". I have limited time (today, left in my life, whichever you pick). How do I spend it better? Clearly one way is to balance this with entire books. Follow some writers on what THEY have found interesting this week. Participate in comments occasionally. But what else? HN has a few "best of" lists: highlights, active, best comments... And has the VERY useful "context" links. ... Might still do better but seems to deliberately want to preserve idle clicking around.