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by psv1 2437 days ago
1. Bookmark interesting stuff as it comes up.

2. Review bookmarks whenever you're bored, have some down time or just feel like it.

3. Only stick with material that you find engaging or is somehow essential to a larger project that you're working on. Happily discard stuff that doesn't grab your attention anymore.

4. When it comes to more well defined projects and goals, having a Trello board is really helpful. Around January I made a board with books, tutorials and courses that I wanted to cover this year - tracking my progress there and keeping things up to date has worked out great so far.

5. Don't aim to record, consume and retain everything, don't measure your own efficiency and don't call it an "information distillation pipeline" - you're not a machine, you're just a person reading stuff online, presumably for your own benefit and enjoyment.