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David Eisinger
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@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ I mentioned last month that, in an attempt to gain more control over my attentio
> Ive corralled most of my media exposure into my feed reader, which helps because I must choose to open it, and have removed access from my phone. But while I generally feel RSS is a healthy way to follow writers, its still a feed. And feeds, whether self-curated or assembled by a corporate algorithm, are designed to be an efficient information delivery mechanism. Their function is to provide easy, immediate access to new information. > Ive corralled most of my media exposure into my feed reader, which helps because I must choose to open it, and have removed access from my phone. But while I generally feel RSS is a healthy way to follow writers, its still a feed. And feeds, whether self-curated or assembled by a corporate algorithm, are designed to be an efficient information delivery mechanism. Their function is to provide easy, immediate access to new information.
In order to keep up with the sites I like without exposing myself to an infinite content well, I set up [rss2email][9] on a schedule so that every morning at 5am, it checks the 20 or so sites I've added and emails me any new posts in a nice digest format. This way, I have a few interesting things to look at it in the morning, but no temptation to check it throughout the day -- my monkey brain knows there won't be anything new to distract myself with. In order to keep up with the sites I like without exposing myself to an infinite content well, I set up [rss2email][9] on a schedule so that every morning at 5am, it checks the 20 or so sites I've added and emails me any new posts in a nice digest format. This way, I have a few interesting things to look at in the morning, but no temptation to check it throughout the day -- my monkey brain knows there won't be anything new to distract myself with.
[9]: https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email [9]: https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email