Phantom Obligation

Terry Godier on “phantom obligation” and RSS readers:

There’s a particular kind of guilt that visits me when I open my feed reader after a few days away. It’s not the guilt of having done something wrong, exactly. It’s more like the feeling of walking into a room where people have been waiting for you, except when you look around, the room is empty. There’s no one there. There never was.

Terry is the developer of Current Reader (for iOS, iPadOS and macOS), and his thorough, well-formed argument for how and why it’s designed as it is convinced me to spend $12.99 on it, sight-unseen.

(via Patrick Rhone)