I have folders set up so I can choose whether I'm looking at just publications, or just the blogs I actually want to read everything from.

The key will be keeping up with it. I'm not afraid to declare RSS Bankruptcy every so often if needed.

I've been missing so much good stuff because it doesn't pop up on the Atlantic's homepage, or because I checked Ars Technica at the wrong time, or something.

Now I'll at least see all the headlines.

I'm not planning to read everything.

I'm using the RSS feed as a way to flag stuff I might be interested in reading later, in a chronological (not algorithmic) order.

Now I'm subscribing to EVERYTHING I'm even remotely interested in.

Bloggers, news sites, magazines that I'm a paying subscriber of, etc.

My unread count is now overwhelmingly high.

So why would I do this to myself?

I was previously a minimalist. I only saved the feeds I wanted to read everything from.

That meant mostly indie bloggers and newsletters, no major publications or sites posting 3x a day.

The new Chris Hayes book, The Sirens' Call, is an apropos discussion of this topic: sirenscallbook.com/

So is this excellent blog post, "Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think": usher.dev/posts/2025-...

Finally, notes are raw material for future work.

They can be fodder for an LLM that I want to set to a particular task.

They can be byproducts to package as "content."

They can be the seeds of something new.

Third, notes help me retrace my thought process. They're a favor from Past Me to Future Me, and accelerate future work.

Second, the more I can offload from my mind, the more I can save my brainpower for cognitive tasks.

You can store thoughts in multiple possible places, but cognition can only take place in the mind, so save the mind for cognition.

First, writing helps me clarify my thinking. I write so that I know what I think.