Wes’s Life

There are a few people who know me well and know that I used to read a lot of feeds. I was sub­scribed to over 100 feeds – not ter­ri­bly uncom­mon. But I found myself star­ing at a few feeds and ques­tion­ing their worth. Won­der­ing if the insights they pro­vide actu­ally helped me at all. So, I began to keep a mental list (granted I would some­how make this more con­crete) of the feeds that I just skipped over. It mostly turned out to be Life­hacker and a few others.

So I purged my list of feeds that gen­er­ate lots of posts with little value and replaced them with unique insights by authors I want to hear from; like Dan Ceder­holm and Jeff Croft. After doing that, I am read­ing no fewer feeds (about 96 now); how­ever, I read less news per day (around 60 arti­cles) and half of them are from pho­to­blogs.

I rec­om­mend that if you are read­ing 100+ arti­cles a day, take a look at what you are just skim­ming over. You may not even need that feed.