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>Avoid following the news constantly. Check in every once in a while—a couple times a week at most. Get your news from long articles, not tweets. Actually read

>Avoid following the news constantly. Check in every once in a while—a couple times a week at most. Get your news from long articles, not tweets. Actually read the articles, don't just learn about the world from hot takes. This 100%. If a piece of news is truly important, then it'll be important tomorrow or even a week from now. You'll even get clarifications and corrections along the way. I like to use Pocket to build a list of long-form articles I want to read, then EpubPress (https://epub.press/ https://epub.press/) to compile that into a weekly EPUB that I can read in-full on a distraction-free e-book reader. It's a much less stressful way of consuming media than the whole neverending drug-frenzied quick-hits world of online news.

upcoming-sesame 2y ago
If that could somehow be automated that would be cool
- genewitch 2y ago
  you mean like Time magazine or LA Weekly?
  - upcoming-sesame 2y ago
    I meant a curated list of interesting articles for me sent as an epub to my kindle weekly...
    - lmm 2y ago
      You mean like what happens if you subscribe to TIME on your kindle?
      - cma 2y ago
        For a billionaire perspective curated list yes: > Since 2018, Time has been owned by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, who acquired it from Meredith Corporation. Benioff currently publishes the magazine through the company Time USA, LLC. https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine) https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)
        lmm 2y ago
        Shrug. If you want something curated that's always going to mean someone is curating it.
- the_snooze 2y ago
  I looked into that recently, and Calibre with this plugin is a viable option. https://github.com/mmagnus/Pocket-Plus-Calibre-Plugin https://github.com/mmagnus/Pocket-Plus-Calibre-Plugin You can schedule periodic content pulls in Calibre, and I believe you can also automate sending the resulting EPUB to an email address (like the Kindle's send-to-email feature). I would use this, but I prefer EpubPress's formatting and I'm too lazy to tweak Calibre's.
- sammularczyk 2y ago
  If you have a Kobo, it has built in Pocket integration and sync out of the box

upcoming-sesame 2y ago

If that could somehow be automated that would be cool

genewitch 2y ago
you mean like Time magazine or LA Weekly?
- upcoming-sesame 2y ago
  I meant a curated list of interesting articles for me sent as an epub to my kindle weekly...
  - lmm 2y ago
    You mean like what happens if you subscribe to TIME on your kindle?
    - cma 2y ago
      For a billionaire perspective curated list yes: > Since 2018, Time has been owned by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, who acquired it from Meredith Corporation. Benioff currently publishes the magazine through the company Time USA, LLC. https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine) https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)
      - lmm 2y ago
        Shrug. If you want something curated that's always going to mean someone is curating it.
the_snooze 2y ago
I looked into that recently, and Calibre with this plugin is a viable option. https://github.com/mmagnus/Pocket-Plus-Calibre-Plugin https://github.com/mmagnus/Pocket-Plus-Calibre-Plugin You can schedule periodic content pulls in Calibre, and I believe you can also automate sending the resulting EPUB to an email address (like the Kindle's send-to-email feature). I would use this, but I prefer EpubPress's formatting and I'm too lazy to tweak Calibre's.
sammularczyk 2y ago
If you have a Kobo, it has built in Pocket integration and sync out of the box