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I'm back up to subscribing to 72 feeds in /reader. That might not sound like a lot but it's quite a jump when you consider I'd culled the list to about 20 when I had my mental health induced blogging break last year.

It's taken almost a year to add ¹ those 50 feeds. I was determined that doing so would be a very deliberate and organic process so as not to reintroduce overwhelm. This was also why I only had /reader polling for new items once every 6 hours.

Over time I have regained the capacity to consume more reflected in the additions and that I also frequently trigger manual refreshes within those 6 hour intervals. I am still, however, very careful about what I add.

Certain bloggers are 'connectors' – they connect people to each other and to information. The likes of Patrick, Bix, Tracy, and others, read wider and deeper than I could ever hope so a lot of interesting information finds its way to me without the need to overload /reader. Of course, the organic nature of my feed management means that some blogs linked to by the connectors will end up in my subscriptions. It's just a question of being sensible.