A daily compilation of news articles that caught my eye.
I like reading news about finance and tech. First thing every morning, I open wsj.com, ft.com, nytimes.com, bloomberg.com, cnbc.com and hacker news. Before I knew it, an hour would go by, sometimes more. I’d get deep into some articles and never make it through the rest. Mornings are too precious for that. So I made this digest — something I can read later, like when I’m on the toilet or in bed at night.
I set a 16-minute timer. In that time, I scroll through the six sites on my phone. If something looks interesting, I screenshot it. Later, I upload the snapshots to cloud storage. At 2:20 pm pacific time, a program runs. It checks the folder, runs optical character recognition on the images, finds the urls of the original articles, and builds this digest. Clicking a link will hide it — so I know I’ve read it. Refreshing the page brings them back.