Rethinking RSS, newsletters, and how I read every morning
Every morning Jason Snell describes a ritual of breakfast, tea, and his [[iPad]] where he reads a curated mix of RSS feeds and email newsletters consolidated in [[Feedbin]] and surfaced in [[ReadKit]]. He reflects on [[Terry Godier]]’s ideas and the design of [[Current]], which deemphasizes unread counts and reading debt, and wonders why that app didn’t fit his once-a-day reading cadence. He argues that bundling low-value feeds into single summaries or treating newsletters as first-class sources can improve a morning-reading experience, and that some publishers such as the [[San Francisco Chronicle]] may actually be better served by offering newsletters instead of RSS. He doesn’t claim to have a solution, but suggests rethinking assumptions about interfaces, aggregation, and how those choices shape daily attention.