A tip for a better media diet: delay reading the news
https://kottke.org/18/04/a-tip-for-a-better-media-diet-delay-reading-the-news [kottke.org]
2018-04-16 21:16
A new car loses about 10% of its value as soon as you drive it off the lot; most news depreciates a lot faster than that. Humans are curious, hard-wired to seek out new information on a continuous basis. But not everything we haven’t seen before is worth our attention.
I’ve been running about two weeks behind in my RSS feed for a while now, and keep plugging away, but I’m not sure I really want to catch up. It’s not all bad being a bit behind.
source: K