Does anyone use RSS feeders anymore? I have a few dozen feeds in Google Reader. Some of them are active blogs. Some of them haven't posted in a while, but I really like them, so the feeds stay.
Then there are others that I haven't read in a while. I unsubscribed from a lot of those tonight.
These are the feeds I scroll through, barely scanning the post titles. The content is still good, I'm sure, but my interests have shifted and I don't care about these blogs anymore. So tonight I clicked the Unsubscribe button, and then I did it a few more times.
I'm reading Bit Literacy by Mark Hurst, and the point he keeps reinforcing is "let the bits go." We already have too many things that want our attention. We have to learn to let go of the things that don't really matter, the things that waste our time and do not provide us with value.
So when I have a pile of ignored RSS feeds (not a pile, a list–you know what I mean), I have to be okay with unsubscribing. I let go, and the thing that goes away is the weekly effort of scrolling through new posts to get the Unread count back to zero. I gain time back, actually.
Then there are others that I haven't read in a while. I unsubscribed from a lot of those tonight.
These are the feeds I scroll through, barely scanning the post titles. The content is still good, I'm sure, but my interests have shifted and I don't care about these blogs anymore. So tonight I clicked the Unsubscribe button, and then I did it a few more times.
I'm reading Bit Literacy by Mark Hurst, and the point he keeps reinforcing is "let the bits go." We already have too many things that want our attention. We have to learn to let go of the things that don't really matter, the things that waste our time and do not provide us with value.
So when I have a pile of ignored RSS feeds (not a pile, a list–you know what I mean), I have to be okay with unsubscribing. I let go, and the thing that goes away is the weekly effort of scrolling through new posts to get the Unread count back to zero. I gain time back, actually.
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