Here’s a video that I made today of my process for sifting RSS feeds to find news stories. This is about 20 minutes of work, time-lapsed down to 1 minute. I start the day with a few thousand items to read, and I very quickly pour through them, looking for trends or controversies or new developments in high-profile stories. I copy down the URL of anything good that I find, and then over time start to pair together those URLs to synthesize a unique news article. It usually takes about an hour to gather up ten to twenty good stories.
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I'm a writer and photographer in San Francisco, curious about how people can get away with writing all day while also being able to afford to buy groceries. 