My Six Years of Ignorance

My Six Years of Ignorance - Chad Fowler

chadfowler.com 22 Jul '13, 3pm

My Six Years of Ignorance

Six years ago, I gave up a bad habit. Since 1999 I had been using RSS then Atom as my interesting-stuff changelog. I eventually amassed a subscription collection of hundreds of feeds with subjects ranging from the obvious (tech news and software development) to religion, philosophy, language, and music. Every day, all day, new items came into my feed reader. I had gotten pretty good at culling uninteresting feeds, so lots of it was relevant and exciting to me. If a tech company was rumored to be in acquisition talks, I knew it. If Rubyists started favoring a new library for accessing relational databases or creating parsers, I knew that. And the unread items count kept growing. Along with it so did my anxiety over not being “in the know”. So six years ago, I deleted the feed reader from my computer and removed every trace of my RSS + Atom collection from the internet so it...

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@uilian » 16 Aug '13, 2pm
Good advice, resisting to the temptation of be always "in the know": [link]
@salvianoo » 29 Jul '13, 2pm
My Six Years of Ignorance - [link] // Don't be obsessed with your feed news.
@lucasrenan » 29 Jul '13, 12am
My Six Years of Ignorance - Chad Fowler [link] via @chadfowler
@JohnMacIntyre » 24 Jul '13, 3am
My Six Years of Ignorance [link] < I don't know. @chadfowler is surrounded by bright devs, but many must seek our growth.
@justinxreese » 24 Jul '13, 1am
My philosophy too. If something is important enough, it’ll get to me RT @chadfowler: My Six Years of Ignorance [link]
@chadnicely » 23 Jul '13, 6am
Is it wrong that this post just makes me want to import his RSS + Atom collection? [link] via @chadfowler
@jorgealvarez » 22 Jul '13, 4pm
My Six Years of Ignorance [link] vía @eLafo
@eLafo » 22 Jul '13, 4pm
+1 RT @chadfowler: My Six Years of Ignorance [link]
@jozacks » 22 Jul '13, 3pm
"because I’m not…distracted trying to keep up with everything, I [can] catch up on…things that matter" by @chadfowler [link]
@samnangchhun » 22 Jul '13, 3pm
RT @chadfowler: My Six Years of Ignorance [link]
@chadfowler » 22 Jul '13, 3pm
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@shiranGinige » 22 Jul '13, 3pm
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My Six Years of Ignorance - Chad Fowler

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