GridCollector is in Apple’s hands for now, so this weekend I’ve started on a second project, and this one is just for me.
Back in March I wrote about how hard it is not to feel like you’re always falling behind in AI, and my way of coping has been to subscribe to everything. I’ve stopped counting my subscriptions, from Stratechery and Lenny’s to a long tail of smaller writers, and the result is a newsletter folder I’m slightly scared to open, a browser full of tabs I’m definitely going to read (maybe), and the uncomfortable realisation that wanting to read everything has turned into reading almost nothing.
Last week I wrote about personal software, and this feels like the perfect excuse to try it on myself: a reading app built entirely around what I care about. The idea is quite simple. Collect every article from every source, then narrow them down to the handful most interesting to me, instead of an overflowing folder full of guilt. After years of building for other people, it’s a nice change to have exactly one user to please, and a very clear success metric: whether I actually read more.
It’s deliberately small and very much quick and dirty for now. I’ll share how it goes once it’s working.