A more balanced reading list?

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As an avid user of reddit and hn, I read a good amount of technical blogs. This stuff is great, but I realize now that its ALL I read. While I enjoy the posts, (and I learn a lot) I feel like I'm becoming disconnected with the average user.

Do you know any good blogs etc by people who don't make websites for a living?

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I feel like I'm becoming disconnected with the average user

Do you mean the average user or the average person :-) ?

I read some human-interest blogs to decompress, my favourite is by a UK paramedic and is at http://randomreality.blogware.com/

The problem with these kinds of blogs is that it is hard to jump in the middle (unlike a technical blog where you can start reading at any point). The blog format makes this worse of course- it's generally hard to start "at the beginning". Anyway in this case the guy has written a couple of books covering the highlights so far.

I'm a huge fan of The Morning News and Arts & Letters Daily

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