How much would you pay for 30 mins worth of reading every day, no ads, curated from free and paid sources based on your interests, goals etc by a human personal curator you can talk to?
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Most friends don’t share my interests in the same depth. The most enjoyable/valuable stuff I read on my own can be pretty niche and isn’t really useful unless you have some context. Of course my friends have their own deeply nerdy interests as well, but overlap is fairly shallow
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I hope that doesn’t sound egotistical. Just that people can get pretty specialized in what they like, and it could be challenging for curators to appreciate multiple areas in the same depth as readers would
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I’ve always thought about how this applies to music recs as well. Easy for algorithms to pick “tropical pop” songs, and for human curators to pick “sad songs”. But much harder to grok someone’s actual musical taste without a real relationship and a lot of conversation about music
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I wonder if it would be better if you had access to stuff they followed, and then just whittled it down for them? Like a dump of their Twitter follows, subreddits, RSS feeds, favourite blogs etc, and pulled from that rather than the wider interverse?
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Yeah, that would cut a lot of feedbrowsing time. Kind of like what aggregator/influencers like Kottke do, if you have a big overlap in interests. Pulling only from my current feeds makes it hard to bring in new stuff from left field though - which is what I’d want from a curator
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Woah, I read what I just wrote, and realised I think I meant the opposite of the way it reads. I mean, would a curator's job be easier if they had access to feeds of stuff you already like, and pulled from them to do their job.
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I think I got what you meant - you = the curator. But yeah the Kottke thing is actually the inverse of what you were saying. I wouldnt want a curator to only work inside my filter bubble though. Ideally it’s new topics & perspectives but with familiar tone & right level of depth
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In addition to a distilled version of my current media diet
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