How do you actually keep up with tech news without it consuming all your time or turning into anxiety scrolling - actually worth it

[NatureBoy86]

I want to stay informed about AI, quantum, and tech generally but every approach I try either leaves me missing things or turns into a time sink. What systems do people use that actually work for staying current without the noise?

Specifically interested in approaches for someone with maybe 30 minutes a day to spend on this

[NorthernKernel]

One curated newsletter you trust completely, one community like this one for human filtered signal, and a rule that you do not open any tech news outside those two sources during the work day

[Sinead_47]

The capability tracking approach rather than model or company tracking. I stopped following every product announcement and started asking once a week whether anything had changed the practical landscape. Much less noise

[BackRowBob]

RSS reader with feeds from four or five sources maximum. Feedly or NetNewsWire. Read it once in the morning, close it. If something is genuinely important it will be in multiple feeds and you will not miss it

[ShawnMichaels]

The newsletter hierarchy that works for me: Import AI for research signal, Air Street Capital state of AI monthly for big picture, and Quantum Computing Report weekly for quantum specifically. Three newsletters, 25 minutes a week, covers most of what matters

[Sienna74]

Accepting that you will miss things is the mindset shift. You cannot read everything. Optimising for depth on what matters to you beats breadth across everything that is published

[CMPunk02]

Forum boards like this one are actually one of the better filters. By the time something reaches a community discussion it has been filtered by multiple people's judgment about what is worth talking about

[Fox]

A weekly review rather than daily checking. Spend 30 minutes on Saturday catching up rather than checking throughout the week. You read the same information with better signal-to-noise because less important things have already disappeared