Keeping Current: Newsletters, Feeds, and Lists

You cannot read everything. Keeping current in AI is not about catching every paper — it is about catching the right 5 percent at the right level of depth. Build a system once, then let it run.

A three-layer information diet

1. 1Daily (10 min): skim headlines and signals — arXiv digest, one newsletter, a few feeds
2. 2Weekly (1-2 hrs): read 2-3 papers or long posts in depth
3. 3Monthly (half-day): review themes, update your mental map, write a synthesis for yourself

Sources worth subscribing to

Principles that actually work

• Budget your attention like money — cap time daily
• Unsubscribe ruthlessly when a source rarely delivers
• Write one synthesis post a month — it forces you to actually understand
• Periodically prune your information diet — what worked last year may not now

“Attention is the coin of the realm. Spend it where it compounds.”

The big idea: staying current is a system, not a scramble. Build the pipes, then let the right things flow in.