The inefficient way

Since I’m in the process of developing my own, I currently have to rely on other RSS readers. And from time to time, I switch them. Today was such a day. Normally, what I do is export an OPML file from my old reader and import it into the new one. But in my current reader, I couldn’t find that export option. This forced me to transfer the feeds one by one. Which was a surprisingly meditative thing to do. Repetitive, not much to think about and occasionally stumbling upon a blog that I had forgotten about. This way, I was able to prune my subscription list, and it’s much shorter now. Decluttering is always worth it, even in the digital space. The “forced inefficiency” of this process made me think about why chasing efficiency is so prevalent in everyday life. In my case, it’s maybe a cursed side-effect of being a programmer. The “Software Brain” is so trained on finding opportunities to automate things that it always thinks there must be a more efficient way to do something. If you…