By experience, if you don’t pay attention to the news somebody will tell you about it soonish and for the most part there is not much you can do about it anyway

By experience, if you don’t pay attention to the news somebody will tell you about it soonish and for the most part there is not much you can do about it anyway. Sometimes you can mitigate it (incoming hurricane, upcoming pandemic lockdown), very rarely can you fix it. For mitigation and fixing, getting the information in a timely manner is important. Of course most of the news has no relevance anyway. My personal plan is to pay attention to hyper local news, things that impact my job and, once we move on from Covid-19, as little as possible to anything else commonly called news.