About the benefits of time spent with an RSS reader

    Most of us are subscribed to many blogs and other resources on various topics. In itself, the constant reading of all garbage instead of working at least causes discontent of the boss. Checking every three and a half minutes whether something new has appeared somewhere on the Internet indicates either the fascination (or rather its absence) of the current work, or a progressing bad habit. However, even a quick look at the RSS content over the last couple of hours of hard work during the break sometimes causes hidden anger of some employees.

    So, is RSS an universal evil? Not quite, from my personal experience, I will write why.

    I will not say (although there, I already wrote this) that RSS at least saves me from checking hundreds of blogs manually, but I remember the time when this was the only way to get information. This is not about that.

    Remember, in childhood, parents were forced to read books? Imagination develops there and all matters. Everything, childhood is over, only O'Reilly publishers left booksbut they’re reading blogs now. What is the practical meaning in books? Books are food for the mind, not otherwise. It is known that with the repeated repetition of certain actions, these actions are "recorded" in the brain and get out of memory easier, faster and often automatically. With a single action, such as reading a book, you are unlikely to remember some details after some time, but the ideas that the author tried to convey to you will remain in your memory for a long time, and very likely will be used later in your creative activity. That's where the development of the imagination is.

    With modern blogs, you can draw an analogy to books. You are reading a short article in which the author is trying to convey to you some idea or share life experiences. Experience and idea can be useful and useless, more people start reading useful blogs over time, nobody needs useless ones, nobody reads them, and the author has an innocent useless exercise and does not go to burn homeless people at night - it’s also quite good.

    Blogs are a source of information on any topic, 98% of which you don’t need right now. And reading unnecessary information looks like an unnecessary action. But, let me give you a few examples from life. I have been convinced from my own experience that this seemingly unnecessary information is quite tangible in the near future.

    * With a person with diverse interests, it’s nice to find common topics for conversation, how many times it helped me out of a dull, uncomfortable silence that a few days ago I read an seemingly unnecessary article on a particular topic.
    * Sometimes only knowing that something theoretically exists can greatly simplify your life. A lot of examples, mainly in IT. You can not imagine how often you have to throw links to blog posts in particularly ardent bicycle inventors.
    * Someone else's experience you may need. For example, when I ran into another school of IDEs at work, I remembered that I had already seen something like this somewhere. And yes, the right article with a recipe for solving the problem was quickly found.
    * Someone else's negative (sometimes fatal) experience will also pop up in memory to warn how something is not worth it. An example was only recently when I almost fell for a divorce, which I read about somewhere in the context of numerous murders by a certain gang.
    * Finally, even bayans from bashorg can entertain not particularly active Internet users.

    Different firms have a different attitude to “wasting time on blogs,” instead of working. It is clear that an employee who does nothing at all, except for the constant feed of an RSS reader, is an obvious candidate for dismissal. But sometimes they go to extremes prohibiting everything around (prohibit VKontakte I am for). But, at least I need breaks in hard work (yes, I often work hard), and I do not smoke. So I can’t go out into the corridor every 15 minutes and spend the next 15 minutes doing nothing there.

    And yes, now I have a break and I'm writing this article.

    If the whole post looks like an excuse for a blog-addiction, then I probably should already be treated for this addiction, and the text is nothing more than an attempt by an addict to justify himself first of all.

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