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Seconded getting off the news or your phone. I learned to embrace blissful ignorance.
by gaudat 4y ago
Seconded getting off the news or your phone. I learned to embrace blissful ignorance.
- tdrgabi 4y agoBut you are commenting on a news site, probably while on the phone. Hnews is not different, I come here for the same dopamine hit
- dopidopHN 4y agoI can loose interest in HN in about 15 cumulative min / day. And I often got some valuable tools/libs out of it. Reddit is infinite, as well as much other social media
- fragmede 4y agoTurn on noprocrast in your account
- earthboundkid 4y agoTrue, but compared to Twitter or reading about Ukraine, HN doesn't make me angry or depressed.
- wollsmoth 4y agohn is a lot slower. Sites like reddit, twitter. They practically show you a whole new page every time you visit.
- briga 4y agoIt's pretty different. Compare the BBC, for example, where basically every article on the front page seems to subtly or not-so-subtly imply that our planet is on the brink of full-blown catastrophe. While such articles occasionally gain traction here, it's mostly just cool tech news and interesting stories. Perhaps not as engaging, but much better for a person's mental well-being.
- tomxor 4y agoNot untrue, but it's one of the less bad places to come on the web. It can also be to do with your own mental filter... HN has submissions that are both on the pessimistic doomsday side at one end and hyper over optimistic side at the other end, but orthogonally there are also purely fun submissions - and these can be quite uplifting, a happy reminder to many of us of why we originally ended up doing what we do.
- baybal2 4y ago[dead]
- pitched 4y ago“ The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.” — Thomas Jefferson I don’t think blissful ignorance is the right way to think of it. I think the news (and social media) today is the same as it’s always been. Don’t cut yourself off but don’t take any of it too seriously.
- noir_lord 4y agoI read the news once a day, I read Reuters because it’s an Wire service it’s less biased, slanted towards bullshit (less not zero). Been great for my mental health.