My information diet
Last updated 2022-07-01.
This page exists because:
- People ask me about it;
- It's a way to keep myself honest;
- It's an efficient way to give a sense of who I am.
Books
Roughly an hour a day. Currently:
1. Three Body Problem
1. The Last Days of Roger Federer
1. Pride and Prejudice (reread)
(Dipping in and out of roughly a dozen other books, each of which I'm an underdog to finish, but read fine this way.)
Newsletters
- The Diff (Byrne Hobart), as often as possible
- Money Stuff (Matt Levine), about half the time
- Bits about Money (Patrick McKenzie), eventually
- Stratechery, in podcast form (see below)
- Parent Data (Emily Oster)
- The Honest Broker (Ted Gioia)
Blogs
- Dan Luu, every word, unless I don't have time to work through technical details
- Erik Bernhardsson, everything that isn't a deep dive into something that would take a lot of time for me to get up to speed on
- Marginal Revolution, in the manner of a daily newspaper
Podcasts
- Conversations with Tyler, roughly 2/3 of the time
- Accidental Tech Podcast, skipping around a lot
- EconTalk, only occasionally (but the ceiling is very high)
- Dithering, basically always
- Stratechery, roughly 2/3 of the time (eventually)
- Test & Code in Python, very frequently
- Under the Radar, almost always
- Invest like the Best, when I hear a compelling recommendation for a specific episode
- The Talk Show, occasionally
- The Tim Ferriss Show, maybe 5% of the time (but the ceiling is high)
- The Rabbit Hole, maybe 1/4 of the time
- Mac Power Users, maybe 1/3 of the time
- Hanselminutes, almost never but the ceiling is high and I love how consistent he is
- Coding Blocks, only occasionally and skipping around a lot
- Robot or Not, often
Social media
- Twitter, almost entirely from a tightly curated list of ~25 people who respect the mental health of their readers (or, at least, whom I find informative and not gratuitously bothersome).
- A little bit of Facebook
Newspapers
The Wall Street Journal, perhaps 15m / day
Various articles I'm linked to from Twitter