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I'd like to hear more about how you have implemented this. Do you not read any news? Some? How do you find out what's going on? I've been dabbling with this to

I'd like to hear more about how you have implemented this. Do you not read any news? Some? How do you find out what's going on? I've been dabbling with this too, and my current state is that I don't consume any news or social media (twitter) that I cannot consume via my RSS reader, which in practical terms means I don't subscribe to any major news outlets, but instead subscribe to a smaller newspaper in my country that sends out daily newsletters which I then forward to my RSS reader that then shows it along regular RSS content - it's a feature of feedbin.com and it's a great feature!. Then I follow a lot of personal blogs, lobste.rs and HN, and then a curated list of twitter accounts, all via my RSS reader. The twitter thing is also a feedbin.com feature. And then I try to read books about a lot of different topics according to my mood, obviously. I get the feeling that any news that is not relevant to me after a month, six months, a year and so on, is probably not worth my time anyways except if it touches me directly, in which case I'll know anyways, so by reading books about, say covid-19 in a few years instead of news now, I'll get a much better picture of the whole thing than if I was intensely following the news every single day doing the pandemic. But fear of missing out does often present itself. It's a constant fight between my rational mind, and some kind of stupid, irrational thing that is also part of me.

soneca 6y ago
It's not hard for me. I have a very low fear of missing out. I do end up consuming news, but always either through some sort of filter or directly (rarely), but realizing the role of entertainment in whatever I am watching. I use Twitter a lot, but I follow people who mostly don't replicate the news. I try to follow people that say interesting things. I read Hacker News a lot, but there is the explicitly idea to not replicate mainstream news here, so another good filter. I use Whatsapp a lot, but I am only in groups with friends and family, so another source of news, but filtered by people I care about. Maybe luckily, or even by my influence, these few groups are not just spamming news to me. I am not against the news, I don't particularly "hate" the news. I do inform myself through podcasts, a few that talk about books for example, so it is another filter to consume the news.
- mmsimanga 6y ago
  I would like to echo WhatsApp groups as a news source. I don't own a TV, don't do twitter and keep Facebook for the odd monthly visit. WhatsApp groups keep informed. The best group is my the one made up of people who went to same boarding school. What's great about this group is you get both sides of the story without anyone leaving in huff. Somewhere down the middle is the real news. I find you can't have similarly discussions out in the open.
throw_away 6y ago
"To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers." — Nassim Taleb

soneca 6y ago

It's not hard for me. I have a very low fear of missing out. I do end up consuming news, but always either through some sort of filter or directly (rarely), but realizing the role of entertainment in whatever I am watching. I use Twitter a lot, but I follow people who mostly don't replicate the news. I try to follow people that say interesting things. I read Hacker News a lot, but there is the explicitly idea to not replicate mainstream news here, so another good filter. I use Whatsapp a lot, but I am only in groups with friends and family, so another source of news, but filtered by people I care about. Maybe luckily, or even by my influence, these few groups are not just spamming news to me. I am not against the news, I don't particularly "hate" the news. I do inform myself through podcasts, a few that talk about books for example, so it is another filter to consume the news.

mmsimanga 6y ago
I would like to echo WhatsApp groups as a news source. I don't own a TV, don't do twitter and keep Facebook for the odd monthly visit. WhatsApp groups keep informed. The best group is my the one made up of people who went to same boarding school. What's great about this group is you get both sides of the story without anyone leaving in huff. Somewhere down the middle is the real news. I find you can't have similarly discussions out in the open.

throw_away 6y ago

"To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers." — Nassim Taleb