Welcome to the Virge Cast, the flagship podcast of decades of listening to music too loud in your

headphones.

I'm your friend David Pierce and I am sitting here at my computer doing what I call a Feeds reboot.

I think I've talked about this on the show before, but basically once a year I try to go through

and just take all the stuff out of every single feed or thing that I subscribe to on the internet.

And I define that super loosely.

So I try to go through all the people I follow on every social platform.

I go through all the email newsletters I subscribe to. I go through all the email newsletters I

subscribe to. I go through all the email newsletters I never subscribe to but

I'm somehow on the list for. All the channels I follow on YouTube, all the

podcasts I subscribe to. Anything that just puts an ongoing list of stuff in front of me at any given time.

Once a year I try to go through it all, look at every single source that stuff is coming from, and get rid of all the stuff I don't want anymore.

Over the course of a year, you just become like a different person with different interests and

a lot of the sources you care about get better or worse or more relevant or less relevant and once a year to just

go through the whole list is really helpful. It's super boring frankly and kind

of tedious because most of these platforms don't make it easy to go through

and sort of systematically unfollow things, but it's so helpful. I cannot recommend it enough.

I try to like put on a movie I've seen before or just a bunch of episodes of the office in a row or when the weather is nice I'll go like sit at a coffee shop and just over the course of an afternoon

burn through all of the feeds that I have I find this actually most useful in an RSS reader

where there's tons of things that like

change a bunch or publish too much or publish not enough

or go out of business or whatever.

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