A question I get a lot = How do you find all the stuff you read on the internet.

If you follow me you know that sometimes I ask people very explicitly to tell me what they're reading but also.....

I follow people who are smart and read and tweet the stuff *they're* reading. I Pocket anything that seems interesting and come back to it all in chunks. I follow people in niche areas who tweet niche things because niches are great.

I have a Twitter list, Mountain West, where I put anyone I've ever interacted with who lives in the Mountain West, broadly conceived. This helps me see a lot of very local stuff but also shows me a ton of stuff that Big City Journalists aren't necessarily tweeting

And I rely heavily on Nuzzel, which allows you to see the pieces that your feed is tweeting most (and what they've been saying about it). I love scrolling all the way down to see the stuff that only, like, 2 people I follow have tweeted. That's often the good, niche stuff

I'm not Brain Pickings and don't want to be but the best way to cultivate a good reading relationship with the internet is to allow yourself to be prepared to find pretty much anything interesting