While plowing through my 400+ RSS subscriptions in Google reader I came across a post from Common Craft that hit home:

Looking back, my RSS reader has been filled with people I felt I should be reading.  Let me repeat that - should be reading.  I think that’s a problem. I felt like I needed to watch TechCrunch to stay on top of tech news. I felt like I needed to subscribe to experts in my field(s).  Sure, these subscriptions were educating me and raising my awareness, but I seriously question the cost/benefit.  Reading them felt like homework - and I don’t like homework.

Although I recently pruned my feeds from 600 down to 400 I’m thinking of going down to WAY less.

My time is better spent on more important things.

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