Trying to keep up with business content was starting to feel impossible

I follow a lot of business content to learn and try and grow my own business more. These are on YouTube and across podcast content, interviews, Diary of a CEO type stuff.

There's just too much of it, new videos drop constantly and I couldn't keep up, and when I did, it was usually at the worst time, like lying in bed at 11pm watching 45min videos, thinking i was being productive when i should have been winding down, sleeping.

I built something to fix it, which wasn't planned, but now whenever a video drops from a channel I follow, I get a structured summary delivered to my by email, with key points, actionable takeaways, notable quotes and also a recommendation if it's actually worth watching in full.

In the first week about 10 videos came through and i didnt watch a single one. The emails coming through were giving me everything i needed, everything i was originally watching the videos for, but without any of the actual watching and time sink. Literally a couple of minutes for each one.

It's really felt cathartic, removed a massive weight i was carrying trying to keep up, and fixed the bad sleeping habit that had taken over…

I've realised what's happening is actually because of two problems. Not enough time, and no way to filter what's worth your time before you're already deep into YouTube at 11pm (at least in my case).

I'm building this into a proper product now and even just using it personally has changed things massively for me. Now I'm wondering how others deal with this type of problem, if they have the same problem… Do you have a system, or do you just accept you won't keep up and miss out on stuff?