As for your news issues, I'd honestly go with the approach of never reading information about breaking stories. Most often breaking stories aren't breaking and

As for your news issues, I'd honestly go with the approach of never reading information about breaking stories. Most often breaking stories aren't breaking and they rarely have the full picture. By delaying your news consumption a few days (or even a week) you'll have a much better picture of the news with the benefit of never needing to "keep up." Also my personal opinion, very often the news isn't relevant. The decade defining stories don't happen every day and there's very few stories that require your immediate attention, versus say your weekly attention. That's why I'm a big fan of Delayed Gratification (someone posted this on HN a few months back): https://www.slow-journalism.com/ https://www.slow-journalism.com/ Journalism that is deliberately slow and very informative (IMO).