If you are more informed and less happy you aren't doing something right. Information doesn't make you unhappy, you thinking about certain information is making

If you are more informed and less happy you aren't doing something right. Information doesn't make you unhappy, you thinking about certain information is making you unhappy. Whilst I've been to college, listen to NPR every day, keep up-to-date on the lastest news in my field via Hacker News and various blogs I can still be happy. I do this in the face of NPR telling me people are dying in Japan from radiation, my clients walking in and complaining all day about random x feature being broken when they simply don't know how to use it (even with clear warnings and arrows pointing to unfilled out fields). It's a matter of what you choose to think about, I choose to focus heavily on what I love such as music, StarCraft 2 and creating beautiful software. If I decided to focus on suffering in the middle east, or how my programming language of choice simply doesn't perform as well as "x" programming language of course I'm going to be unhappy or unsatisfied with what I do. I know this information I just don't focus on it all the time. It's something for me to bring up in a conversation with people to discuss rationally and use in my job to better my work but not dwell on and make myself unhappy.