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Ask HN: How long should I spend every day reading news?
I'm trying to manage my time better, allocating sessions to read news every day. 2 sessions (after lunch and evening) seem optimal to me but it's maybe too much.
How do you organise yourself ?
- shoo 10y agoI guess it depends what you're trying to achieve, why you read the news, and what else you could be doing instead. Arguably you could subscribe to something that gives you a competently summarised payload of news at low frequency (monthly?), and spend one long session once a month digesting that.
- J_Darnley 10y agoRead until you begin to wish for global thermonuclear war. Then you have had enough.
- JSeymourATL 10y agoIt's a brilliant question -- the optimum daily news diet. I find listening to NPR in the morning is a solid minimum dosage of daily headline news. Supplemented later by Bloomberg, Fark, HN, Drudge, etc... The way one processes news cycles- is very much determined by your personal rhythm and energy levels. Here's an interesting take on the optimal time for everything from the WSJ > http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444180004578018294057070544 http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100008723963904441800045780182...
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoI read the news with a cup of tea mid-morning, for about as long as the tea lasts. Probably just as important is what you read, I tend to read the business press because there isn't so much bias and sensationalism as the general media.
- partisan 10y agoWhich sources do you read? Every news source has a bias. The ones that feel like they do not may align with your own personal biases.
- cableshaft 10y agoWhen I click the Windows 8 button at work the news app shows a headline blurb. If it's interesting (and preferably world news) I click it, and see what else is there too. Otherwise I let the more interesting news bubble up via social media discussions or chatting with people. I used to be more on top of it, but it really didn't do me a whole lot of good, other than provide me with an extra bullet point or two to bring up with amateur pundits for them to dismiss and bring up a new subject about some little thing they were told to be outraged about today. I can't say I feel like I'm missing out on too much. Now I just don't bother and keep up with the important news: board games (via Reddit), tech news (via HN), and video games (via Kotaku).
- zacha411 10y agoIt depends on your procrastination profile. I usually do it in the beginning of the day, but after all urgent things are done.