Thanks, Ryan, but years of reading the news have left me unable to process such a long, thoughtful piece about how years of reading the news will leave me unable to process long, thoughtful pieces.
I didn’t derive sufficient immediate pleasure from reading the news. But like eating one’s vegetables, I thought it was justified by long-term returns.
(Hoping someone now provides a reason I don’t have to eat my vegetables.)
What’s the argument for not consuming news? I don’t necessarily disagree, but it’s not self-evident to me.
I found Avoid News, Towards a Healthy News Diet by Rolf Dobelli quite convincing.
Thanks, Ryan, but years of reading the news have left me unable to process such a long, thoughtful piece about how years of reading the news will leave me unable to process long, thoughtful pieces.
My solution is listening to all the TED talks-only about a six-month delay and much more durable information.
Another option is Long News: https://www.ted.com/talks/kirk_citron_and_now_the_real_news And if you are into global catastrophic risks, you only need to spend about 10 minutes a month here: http://gcrinstitute.org/gcr-news-summary-june-2015/
This is the blog post that convinced me a few years ago.
I love it when reason points in a direction I already wanted to go but mistakenly thought it unreasonable. Thanks.
Why did you want to go that direction?
I didn’t derive sufficient immediate pleasure from reading the news. But like eating one’s vegetables, I thought it was justified by long-term returns.
(Hoping someone now provides a reason I don’t have to eat my vegetables.)
The paleo diet?
http://jayquantified.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-paleo-diet-follow-up-v.html
(But see http://lesswrong.com/lw/e9o/what_is_the_evidence_in_favor_of_paleo/ )
Haha, don’t be silly, I stopped eating solid food a long time ago.
[Was just joking about vegetables.]