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General tech news adds no benefit. However, news specific to your industry segment can add benefit. For example, knowing a gas pipeline is shut down leading to

General tech news adds no benefit. However, news specific to your industry segment can add benefit. For example, knowing a gas pipeline is shut down leading to temporarily high gas prices is useful if you are in logistics. However knowing that Intel just made a faster chip is not so useful. Similarly, the political stage of Belize is only useful if you have work or family that is impacts by that. Just knowing it otherwise is only useful for fun conversations.

lotsofpulp 4y ago
News about politics is also helpful. You can decide who to support, or to run for office yourself, or to campaign on behalf of others, or at least donate. Society does foment a favorable environment for you to exist in without effort. And if it does, then you are lucky to be in the right place at the right time, and assume the favorable environment is temporary.
- dismantlethesun 4y ago
  I agree on that. If you’re going to be involved in the political process you should a minimum keep track of the politicians on what they’re doing at any given time.
- vcryan 4y ago
  News about politics is extremely addictive. Rather than checking daily, or twice a day, or 50 times a day, you could block off a few hours once per month and get whatever the benefit is a person gets from keeping track of political topics.
  - ChildOfChaos 4y ago
    To be honest I am bad with this, but I think really the only time it's actually useful is at any point you can do something about it, else the rest of the time you can avoid. Even a few hours a month seems wasteful to me, there will be a lot of stories playing out and speculation that doesn't mean anything to you right now. Really only at elections is when it seems important to me, do your research and go deeper than most and then make your choice, but avoid the news the rest of the time seems the optional thing to me. You tend to hear about things anyway, everyone has an opinion on this thing and they love to share it, no matter how much they know about the topic, the best way to not get suckered in, is not to follow it at all. I've in no way managed to apply this to my life yet though, but it is my goal.

lotsofpulp 4y ago

News about politics is also helpful. You can decide who to support, or to run for office yourself, or to campaign on behalf of others, or at least donate. Society does foment a favorable environment for you to exist in without effort. And if it does, then you are lucky to be in the right place at the right time, and assume the favorable environment is temporary.

dismantlethesun 4y ago
I agree on that. If you’re going to be involved in the political process you should a minimum keep track of the politicians on what they’re doing at any given time.
vcryan 4y ago
News about politics is extremely addictive. Rather than checking daily, or twice a day, or 50 times a day, you could block off a few hours once per month and get whatever the benefit is a person gets from keeping track of political topics.
- ChildOfChaos 4y ago
  To be honest I am bad with this, but I think really the only time it's actually useful is at any point you can do something about it, else the rest of the time you can avoid. Even a few hours a month seems wasteful to me, there will be a lot of stories playing out and speculation that doesn't mean anything to you right now. Really only at elections is when it seems important to me, do your research and go deeper than most and then make your choice, but avoid the news the rest of the time seems the optional thing to me. You tend to hear about things anyway, everyone has an opinion on this thing and they love to share it, no matter how much they know about the topic, the best way to not get suckered in, is not to follow it at all. I've in no way managed to apply this to my life yet though, but it is my goal.