TL;DR ✨
Here are a few sources that, in the author's opinion, were worth following via RSS and often still are. This is not an official ranking of the Czech internet, just a personal selection of sources that made sense to the author at various times.
It is also a small defence of RSS itself, because this way of reading has one enormous advantage:
RSS Reader Recommendations¶
Here are a few sources that, in the author's opinion, were worth following via RSS and often still are. This is not an official ranking of the Czech internet, just a personal selection of sources that made sense to the author at various times.
It is also a small defence of RSS itself, because this way of reading has one enormous advantage:
You choose the source of your information. An algorithm does not choose it for you.
✨ 📡 Why RSS Is Still a Great Tool¶
An RSS reader is not sexy. It has no infinite feed, does not dispense dopamine in doses, and does not create the illusion that scrolling for twenty minutes means you are somehow "staying informed."
But that is precisely why it is excellent.
✨ The Main Benefits of RSS¶
- information comes directly from the source to you,
- there is much less algorithmic clutter involved,
- you can build your own information diet,
- and you can separate worthwhile reading from noise more easily.
In other words, RSS is not about being online everywhere. RSS is about not being fed digital rubbish against your will.
🧾 How the Author Chooses Sources¶
It does not matter whether someone publishes three times a week or once a month. More important questions are:
- does the author have something to say?
- do they have opinions of their own?
- is their writing readable?
- is there something to take away from it?
If so, the author is happy to overlook a lower publishing frequency. One solid article a month is better than five pieces of motivational nonsense a week.
✅ The Author's Recommendations¶
✨ 1. Mário Roženský's blog¶
Mário had a long-standing talent for writing in a way that was both practical and inspiring. His site often featured useful material on business, productivity, and the online world without unnecessary padding.
What the author found especially interesting was the combination of usefulness and a personal perspective. That is rarer than it may seem.
✨ 2. Lukáš Hanes¶
He published rather sporadically, but each article delivered something of value. These are exactly the authors worth keeping in an RSS reader, not because of how often they publish, but because when they do, their work is worth reading.
✨ 3. Michal Kašpárek / Finmag¶
Michal Kašpárek knew, and still knows, how to make a text lively and readable while giving it a clear point of view. That combination has never been a given on the Czech internet.
For anyone looking for an author who does not pretend to be a sterile encyclopedia but does not write in complete chaos either, he is an excellent person to follow.
✨ 4. Robert and the team at Na volné noze¶
This source is particularly worth following for people interested in business, freelancing, and independent work. Not everything will resonate with everyone, but what they publish tends to be coherent and well considered.
Robert Vlach also has one notable strength: he can turn experience into an understandable form without producing instant motivational mush.
✨ 5. Oci¶
An investor, an IT professional, and someone with a perspective of his own. These are exactly the blogs that may not be intended for the masses but are all the more valuable to readers who do not want to consume nothing but recycled generalities.
✨ 6. Honza Vaňhara¶
His older posts contained a great deal of inspiring material. Readers could take away entrepreneurial drive, a perspective on risk, and a somewhat different mentality from the one common in the Czech environment.
The newer posts were sometimes shorter and more general, but he is still an author whose archive is worth exploring.
✨ 7. Jindra Fáborský¶
A talented marketer with energy and an eagerness to get things done. It makes sense to start following people like this relatively early, because the full extent of what they create often emerges only over time.
🔍 🧠 Using RSS Wisely¶
The biggest mistake is not having too few sources. It is having everything in your RSS reader.
That creates:
- an unreadable graveyard of links,
- hundreds of unread articles,
- and a sense of failure simply because no one can keep up with reading the internet.
A better strategy is:
- keep a smaller number of high-quality sources,
- clean up the feed from time to time,
- retain only authors who consistently give you something of value.
An information diet works much like a food diet. Poor-quality content is not the only problem. Too much content is a problem as well.
✅ 🏁 Conclusion¶
The author likes RSS precisely because it brings reading back to a somewhat more civilised level. Instead of letting an algorithm lead readers around the internet by the nose, it allows them to assemble their own information world consciously.
At a time when everyone is trying to seize your attention, that is quite a luxury.
If you use an RSS reader, try occasionally looking beyond the latest updates and exploring the older archives of good authors. They often contain more value than whatever headlines happen to be shouting on social media.