Pro tip: you just don't have to.

Plough your own furrow; keep your practical knowledge and skills up-to-date as much as you can. But do so aligned with your own goals.

Being up to date with generic "news" is not really that important. Don't allow yourself to think it's bad if you miss a news story. If it is important or significant it will filter down to you.

I stopped trying to keep up with everything. I follow a few primary sources and do one weekly catch-up;anything truly important survives the 48-hour filter.

I listen to The AI Daily Brief: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ai-daily-brief-art...

Hacker News and a RSS subscription for Techmeme is sufficient.

X/Twitter is too irony/vaguepost filled that relying on it for high-signal news actually makes you less informed.

I follow Simon.

https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/

https://github.com/sponsors/simonw

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simonw

I don't

I follow Matt Wolfe for the latest on gen AI: https://www.youtube.com/@mreflow Keeping up with everything in AI is impossible.