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I stopped reading general news about 10 years ago. Saw an immediate benefit - not feeling like crap. I still had my Twitter feed though and that was next on the chopping block. Today I still check Hacker News but disregard most of the non-interesting stuff. I think I’d be better off not reading it at all. But now nostr news makes its way to me, a lot of times not so positive. Fighting the news time suck seems to be an ongoing battle. Difficult to escape entirely, easy to get sucked into. Another thing I noticed that helped me stop feeling overwhelmed is I stopped trying to keep up with all the tech developments for a while. With AI it picked back up and now I have this battle to fight again. While it lasted it was great. Trying to keep up with things left less time for deep focus. But as everyone knows most satisfaction and success comes from focus. At some point you have to realize (as a young person) that no amount of new knowledge will advance you - and that you actually have to do the work. Of course that doesn’t mean ossify and refuse to learn and adapt, but just be more mindful on what kinds of things actually add value to your life or your career. In most cases it’s new skills, not new information. This implies doing the work to learn the skill. View quoted note →

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Why I Stopped Following the News

A personal reflection on the decision to stop following daily news and its impact on my well-being.

TLDR; you start feeling a lot better.

I am an idiot and used my Apple ID email on some other services. I’ve since started using aliases since private relay came out but the email does remain on some services. This is probably how it got leaked. Lesson: don’t use your main ID emails anywhere else. They also somehow got my password which I may have re-used… again, I’ve started generating emails a while ago but a few may have remained in the wild. Luckily my 2 factor works. I’ve reset the non-generated passwords on-device and set up a new email that I won’t use anywhere else. It’s a good reminder to tidy up your security situation! View quoted note →

Someone just tried to sign into my Apple account 😬 Heads up to Apple users. There must have been a leak.

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Vibed my own podcast app. It has a few bugs still but usable 🤞 https://podapp.vercel.app/

Using it in Shakespeare and it’s dirt cheap and fairly ok! Can’t wait to use the swarm model in Shakespeare @Alex Gleason Swarm of agents building nostr apps?! 🚀 🚀 🚀 View quoted note →

Tried Kimi2, not bad!

“I’m on nostr” 😆 View quoted note →

What’s your favorite podcast these days? Name / topic?