For some time I used to feel the same as you (and most of people here as I understand). It was not easy but I started an information diet. I never went back. M

For some time I used to feel the same as you (and most of people here as I understand). It was not easy but I started an information diet. I never went back. My information diet (in case of being helpful for somebody): general news websites and newspapers - None. If it is important you'll know about it by somebody or it will be on HN top 10. hacker news - Top 10 articles of the last day [1]. specific news (in my case, javascript) - Weekly digest email [2]. twitter - Once a day, no tweeting and following only 10 accounts. Probably still too much. facebook and email - Once a day. Probably still too much. skype - Just by appointment. smartphone - I don't have one. A basic phone is enough (unless I'm traveling; maps and gps are really useful). tv - Just by appointment (ex: watch a sport event, specific TV show, etc). To organize myself I use Secretweapon (GTD for evernote) [3] and Folder-system [4]. [1] http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ [2] http://javascriptweekly.com/ http://javascriptweekly.com/ [3] http://www.thesecretweapon.org/ http://www.thesecretweapon.org/ [4] https://github.com/we-build-dreams/folder-system https://github.com/we-build-dreams/folder-system