Avoid News - Towards a Healthy News Diet by Rolf Dobelli Prologue This article is the antidote to news. It is long, and you probably won’t be able to ski

Avoid News - Towards a Healthy News Diet by Rolf Dobelli Prologue This article is the antidote to news. It is long, and you probably won’t be able to skim it. Thanks to heavy news consumption, many people have lost the reading habit and struggle to absorb more than four pages straight. This article will show you how to get out of this trap – if you are not already too deeply in it. News is to the mind what sugar is to the body. We are so well informed and yet we know so little. Why? Article: https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2010-dobelli.pdf HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21430337 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21430337