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[…] Guest post: More on distractions, from Paul Ford | 43 Folders At first I thought that the only way I could write a summary of the week’s news was to be truly, broadly distracted. I followed as many links as I could. I set up an RSS reader with literally one thousand feeds–every possible news source I could find. But it didn’t work. An RSS reader seems like the perfect application if you’re trying to write a summary of the world, but it was worse than useless. I was including too many different events, and my Weekly Reviews were too long and ponderous. Looking back on them I can see myself struggling. So I went to Roger and asked him how he used to put the Weekly together each week without losing his mind. […]