Decent insight:
- https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-answer-is-not...
- https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/narrative-collaps...
Moreover, if you're using third-party tools, you now have two problems: managing and organising content AND managing those tools and keeping track of their sunsets and shutdowns.
(I've been bitten by that last twice, and still have un-migrated Readability articles. Made all the worse by the fact that Readability at some point employed its own URL-redirecting link-shortener ... which of course also went offline.)
It's too easy to just turn someone else's firehose of information into your own firehose of information. When your collecting information with a specific task in mind (eg. work, hobbies) this may not always be the case and the need swings in the direction you and the author are speaking up for. I'm speaking more in respect to current events and news media, or circumstances that aren't immediately defined ("I need to learn this for work.", "I need to find headlights for my Volvo.")