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The Internet is the world’s information superhighway, and like most highways have too many cars, the internet has too much info. Every corner you go around, there are promises for laughs, guarantees of productivity, and formulas for a level of creativity beyond what you’ve ever reached.

Most of its bullshit. It took me a long time to realize that just because you sign up for something that is written like it’s helpful, doesn’t mean it is helpful.

It’s not that I took everything I read as gospel (please don’t do that on the internet), it’s more that I was paying attention more to what I could miss then what I was actually consuming.

“Sure, this list isn’t useful now, but what if the next email has a link to just the productivity strategy I was looking for? What if the next email contains the golden deal that will get me my dream laptop at 5%?”

I was living an oxymoron life where I kept on reading banal garbage in the hopes that one day that same garbage would have a diamond within it. I told myself it doesn’t really matter, 1–2 minutes to skim an email is nothing, but it adds up when you add 10–20 emails on top of my usual workload.

I wasn’t protecting my time, but through trial, error, and a lot of clicking in my junk folder for subscription confirmations, I managed to find 5 email lists that provided value. I de-cluttered the rest and kept subscriptions to the ones below.

(As a side note, I have no financial stake in any of the below organizations. I’m just a fan)

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