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My recommendations as a professional: The kind of news you want is that which remains relevant tomorrow. Some news are designed to create cumulative knowledge
by uniqueuid 4y ago
My recommendations as a professional:
The kind of news you want is that which remains relevant tomorrow.
Some news are designed to create cumulative knowledge and cumulative understanding. Search for those formats and make a habit of reading them regularly, but not necessarily daily.
A great example is the economist and in particular its weekly recap.
By the way, I'm not a fan of podcasts because you're not in control when listening. They want you to spend as much time as possible, but you want to skim and skip quickly. Text is vastly superior for that.
- beardyw 4y agoI also scan the UK newspaper front pages https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/ https://www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/ to see the trashy side without any temptation to actually read!
- beardyw 4y agoeg: Wetherspoons has begun serving sausages in its breakfast menu in place of eggs Is an actual front page story.
- VLM 4y agoWRT spend as much time as possible, I see that in Youtube videos, we (or "the internet") are entering the era of "filler" as the dominant concept. We were in the era of "social" a decade ago, then had some years of "notifications" as a spammy parasocial interaction, and now we're entering the era of "filler". Its an open debate how "filler" relates to genres such as legacy TV morning variety "news" shows that are mostly press releases for brick and mortar retail intermixed with a rotation of lasagna recipes, vs filler as in some talented charismatic youtubers can take a concept that a talented speaker skilled in brevity could express crystal clearly in perhaps two minutes and stretch that out to fifteen minutes of ad revenue filler. We're entering an era of rapidly thinning information density. Kind of like the inflation phase of Big Bang theory.