John Carney: What I Read

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I usually do two things at once: I open my phone and look at Twitter, and I turn on CNBC to see what the headlines are that morning, depending on how early it is, either in Europe, or on Squawk Box. 

I wake up pretty early, usually before 6 a.m. I start reading the news that people up that early are talking about on Twitter. I actually find people waking up and reading stories and tweeting that out, to be a really fascinating experience. The first thing that catches their attention is often the first link they're tweeting out. And so, one advantage of waking up a little earlier than everybody else is, you're able to watch everybody in your twitter feed start to read the news and talk about it. 

I have an RSS reader. I use Feedly. I used to use Google Reader until they terminated it. I go through there and I have probably 1,000 different websites that are plugged into there, so I see the latest things they posted since the last time I