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Hacker News Hacker NewsPlough your own furrow; keep your practical knowledge and skills up-to-date as much as you can. But do so aligned with your own goals.
Being up to date with generic "news" is not really that important. Don't allow yourself to think it's bad if you miss a news story. If it is important or significant it will filter down to you.
Then, I occasionally ask Gemini, Claude or Perplexity to do a deep research about Latest AI News, and make a Brief for me. I'm considering making this a daily automatic routine, so I can get this kind of content once a day.
I've noticed that on Reddit news seems to arrive sooner than on other platforms. I follow almost only AI Related Subreddits, and in this way, often I discover news at least a few days before they come out also on other platforms, even YouTube. This surprised me, in the beginning, but now I'm used to this speed of news acknowledgment. When I want to check on the AI news, I just need to open Reddit and refresh my feed.
Also, real interest and curiosity helps in this field, as keeping up with news otherwise seems more like a job than a pleasure. I work with and on AI Agents every day, and it's one of my biggest passions, so I enjoy the "keep-up" process.
In the end, keep in mind that you can't really keep up with All AI news out there, you need to filter what you're really interested in, and try to keep up with it. You don't really need to know every AI news, just the few that touches what you will use and need.
He mixes in other stuff you may not care about, and the volume is quite high but I find it an interesting read.
X/Twitter is too irony/vaguepost filled that relying on it for high-signal news actually makes you less informed.
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