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One, I'd like to note that Alex has an exceptional component of his site dedicated to older-edition-style tabletop roleplaying and it's well worth checking out

One, I'd like to note that Alex has an exceptional component of his site dedicated to older-edition-style tabletop roleplaying and it's well worth checking out if you're interested. Two, given a choice between the front page of the New York Times and a PDF or expert blog post - I typically select the latter - or read about my town and local jurisdiction. I keep Bloomberg and the AP around for things that are events I may need to know about quickly. Of course this gets into the problem of filtering and knowledge gaps, I might be reading something really interesting about natural gas but I have no idea if the person is a crank or not because of my lack of domain knowledge - so I've got to cautiously work the bubble perimeter every time.

intrasight 2y ago
I strive to only read news that I pay for and I think that info gaps are a risk worth taking to maintain my mental health. I only subscribe to weeklies. I no longer see much value in daily news.
- qrobit 2y ago
  Genuine question: do you consider Hacker News news? Because I believe answer is yes (judging by the name). Maybe it would be good idea to once a week open some site that aggregates top HN posts of the week and treat it like weekly newsletter I guess every blog infrequently emitting posts can count as weekly news too, you don't even need to aggregate anything. RSS definitely helps to keep everything in one place though
  - intrasight 2y ago
    I consider it a news aggregator. And with very insightful comments. I'll open up HN on my phone when I'm waiting around - to see what people are talking about. Since I can't click on the referenced articles (I white-list URLs on my iPhone), I only read the comments and not the referenced article. But even on my desktop where I don't white-list, I rarely open the referenced article. I can get a tl;dr from reading comments even if there wasn't an explicit tl;dr comment. HN has an awesome and open API so that certainly would be possible to create a weekly summary. And if it existed, I certainly would use it.

intrasight 2y ago

I strive to only read news that I pay for and I think that info gaps are a risk worth taking to maintain my mental health. I only subscribe to weeklies. I no longer see much value in daily news.

qrobit 2y ago
Genuine question: do you consider Hacker News news? Because I believe answer is yes (judging by the name). Maybe it would be good idea to once a week open some site that aggregates top HN posts of the week and treat it like weekly newsletter I guess every blog infrequently emitting posts can count as weekly news too, you don't even need to aggregate anything. RSS definitely helps to keep everything in one place though
- intrasight 2y ago
  I consider it a news aggregator. And with very insightful comments. I'll open up HN on my phone when I'm waiting around - to see what people are talking about. Since I can't click on the referenced articles (I white-list URLs on my iPhone), I only read the comments and not the referenced article. But even on my desktop where I don't white-list, I rarely open the referenced article. I can get a tl;dr from reading comments even if there wasn't an explicit tl;dr comment. HN has an awesome and open API so that certainly would be possible to create a weekly summary. And if it existed, I certainly would use it.