Admirative of your system for the effort it requires to build but honestly … i don’t believe it will be so useful (but I will be happy to learn I was wrong)
1/ I don’t think there is a magic prompt that will spot everything you need to read. Because what you need to read is at a very specific place hard to capture in a prompt: familiar enough so that it intersects your interests, but new enough not to be a repetition of what you already know.
2/ more fundamentally, I think there is another “right” way to treat unread newsletter (by “RIGHT” I mean effective, in the sense that you both learn something and you don’t create FOMO). The idea is to consider those unread like an infinite library of interesting content. Whenever you feel like reading you go there and something interesting pops up. That’s so great ! And with the number of newsletters, it creates diversity.
That’s actually a really good idea - treating it as an infinite library. Makes total sense for all the substack subscriptions. I’ve never thought of that 😅 Agree it’s not a perfect system but it does help me focus especially when there is little time. It pulls out the bits that I then can read in more depth. Works well for the classic AI news newsletters like The Neuron, Superhuman etc. Substack is a different can of worms…
You wrote. I 100% related. “Most of my FOMO was procrastination wearing a productivity costume.” That’s the whole story for so many of us. Thanks for taking the time to choose just the right words.
Looking forward to see what are u going to create using make.com, I'm sure there will be more context you need to put in to the prompt so u can extract insights that suits your style.
Admirative of your system for the effort it requires to build but honestly … i don’t believe it will be so useful (but I will be happy to learn I was wrong)
1/ I don’t think there is a magic prompt that will spot everything you need to read. Because what you need to read is at a very specific place hard to capture in a prompt: familiar enough so that it intersects your interests, but new enough not to be a repetition of what you already know.
2/ more fundamentally, I think there is another “right” way to treat unread newsletter (by “RIGHT” I mean effective, in the sense that you both learn something and you don’t create FOMO). The idea is to consider those unread like an infinite library of interesting content. Whenever you feel like reading you go there and something interesting pops up. That’s so great ! And with the number of newsletters, it creates diversity.
Sorry for this long rant :)
That’s actually a really good idea - treating it as an infinite library. Makes total sense for all the substack subscriptions. I’ve never thought of that 😅 Agree it’s not a perfect system but it does help me focus especially when there is little time. It pulls out the bits that I then can read in more depth. Works well for the classic AI news newsletters like The Neuron, Superhuman etc. Substack is a different can of worms…
Can of worms hahaha
You wrote. I 100% related. “Most of my FOMO was procrastination wearing a productivity costume.” That’s the whole story for so many of us. Thanks for taking the time to choose just the right words.
2k+ newsletter is a lot! :)
Looking forward to see what are u going to create using make.com, I'm sure there will be more context you need to put in to the prompt so u can extract insights that suits your style.
I know - the amount of unread news letter os ridiculous 😅. I will share my learnings in one of the next posts