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Thanks for sharing! Feels like you've thought about this. I've been trying to lesser the amount time spent on reading and listening to news. I always feel that

Thanks for sharing! Feels like you've thought about this. I've been trying to lesser the amount time spent on reading and listening to news. I always feel that I haven't actually missed out on much (anything) when getting home from a one or two week vacation not consuming news daily or multiple times a day. Have you or anyone else here found a good way to "batch process" news? Say weekly. RSS feeds I'd use more for interests. Or at least that's how I've thought about it.

karlicoss 6y ago
Yep, agree that in hindsight most news feel quite unimportant. Personally, I stopped following any, except for specific topics I'm interested in (say, 'space exploration news'). I figured in most cases it just makes me frustrated (i.e. how dumb politicians are, or how ignorant are people, etc.), and in most cases I can't do much actionable about most of this frustration. If it's something really important, it would seep through my twitter feed or even here on Hackernews. I understand it can be hard though, and it took me some conscious effort and time to get used to this. Although I can't see why you can't use RSS? Then you can skim though the titles once a week, and read the ones you find the most important. It feels that it would be much easier to prioritize because you'd have an overview of everything that happened.