I read too much. The sad thing is, I don’t even read normal books anymore. I keep buying them, but I haven’t read one in months. Here’s what I’m always reading:
daily:
- 8-10 web sites (just the ones I feel compelled to read that don’t have news feeds)
- Email from 6 accounts (I have more, but those are the accounts with regular traffic)
- ~120 news feeds (in four main groups: entertainment, general, news & politics; there’s a fifth group with hundreds of feeds that I don’t read, but filter using keyword watches)
weekly:
- Eye Weekly
- Now Toronto
- the Saturday Star
- 100 pages of whatever textbook I’m currently working on
monthly:
- Esquire
- Spin
- Stuff (the British gadget magazine, not the crappy American lad mag)
- Playboy (before you mock…this was a gift from my wife, along with Spin and Stuff, and cliche though it may be, the articles are surprisingly good. last month there was an in-depth examination of the origin of life & science vs. religion, an collection of final thoughts from Hunter Thompson, a short story by Chuck Palahniuk, interviews with James Spader and Vitali Klitschko and a look at stranger-than-strange Pentagon projects. then again, it also featured “The Real Desperate Housewives”. So, fine, it’s not The Economist.)
- Toronto Life
By the way, this doesn’t include what I read at work, which involves half a dozen sites, about fifty news feeds that update every three hours, and god knows how many emails bearing god knows how many attachment.