I Stopped Reading Newsletters. Here's What I Use Instead.

I Stopped Reading Newsletters. Here's What I Use Instead. My morning used to start with four apps. RSS reader. Email. Slack. Twitter. Then I'd open a few tabs for sites that didn't have feeds. Somewhere around the 200th email and the third Slack channel, I'd realize I'd already spent an hour and still missed the one article that actually mattered. Sound familiar? I'm a developer. I need to track releases, security advisories, blog posts from people I respect, and industry news that affects what I build. Not as a background hobby. As part of doing my job well. And here's what I've realized after twenty years of trying different approaches: this problem has been "solved" three times. Each solution nailed something important. And each one created a new version of the same problem. This is the story of those three attempts. And the third one finally works. Act 1: RSS Got the Philosophy Right The Promise RSS was built on a radical idea: you decide what you read. No algorithm picks content f