alex-vasper

Makes sense.

Got it.

Makes sense!

This is probably the sanest answer in the thread :)

The tricky part for me is that I’m trying to design a workflow that keeps me informed enough to spot the survivors while not burning all my time on the tourist phase of the cycle.

Curious how you personally handle it in practice: do you genuinely ignore the space until things blow up, or do you keep a minimal pulse (e.g., a couple of trusted sources) and just refuse to engage with the day-to-day hype?

This is kind of what I want my life to look like: one pass over “top HN this week” and call it a day.

Do you literally just sort by most popular for the week and read down until you’re bored, or do you filter by tags (AI/crypto/markets) as well? I’ve found HN to be very good at surfacing conceptual/long-term AI stuff, but less so for day-to-day market moves or crypto micro-news, which is partly what pushed me into this multi-source mess in the first place.

Maybe the real answer is: HN for “what matters over months/years,” and accept that you’ll always be late on the daily noise.

Thanks for the link — had not seen that specific channel before.

The Telegram “meta-feeds” are an interesting middle ground: still firehose-ish, but at least someone has done a first pass on what’s worth surfacing. Do you treat that as your primary intake and then go deeper on a few stories, or is it more of a background stream you dip into when you have time?

I’m trying to move from “always-on feed” to “a couple of intentional check-ins per week,” so I’m curious how people avoid turning these feeds into just another scrolling habit.

Interesting that FDV bots are useful for you; Do you feel like that skews you toward short-term trades vs longer-term, or do you layer your own fundamentals on top?

The hard part is resisting the urge to go back into Discord/Telegram/X and second-guess those choices.