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99% of my browsing is gmail (work), HN (shared values, it makes me feel less lonely) and boardgamegeek. Daily news are junk food for your brain: highly addictiv

99% of my browsing is gmail (work), HN (shared values, it makes me feel less lonely) and boardgamegeek. Daily news are junk food for your brain: highly addictive and unhealthy. > What do you do to break out of it? imho the solution is not more news. Take a break from news sources. I don't use facebook anymore, since I realized it was a major source of unhappiness. You could try to engage your brain with different inputs, like books. After cutting down my browsing habits, I have been reading tons of ebooks, from front to cover.

untog 12y ago
Not to pick on you (too much?) but a combination of coming to HN because of "shared values" and ignoring daily news sites because they're "unhealthy" doesn't sounds great to me. HN is very much a bubble. Not just that it's tech news based, but it's also very geographically centered around Silicon Valley and economically centered around the affluent. To pick a topical example, I'd say that every American ought to know what is going on in Baltimore right now - HN is most definitely not the place to get the full view of a topic like that. And daily news sites don't just do daily news - by example, the Baltimore Sun has a great, in-depth piece that is directly relevant to what's going on right now: http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/police-settlements/ http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/police-settlements/
- igravious 12y ago
  Or US-centric. A fair proportion of HN-ers are not from the States and we are not interested in local US news. Really, we're not.
  - untog 12y ago
    HN is pretty US-centric, though. I get that a significant number of users are not from the US, but the site is undeniably US-centric - and I say this as a non-American. (and just so that we're clear: I'm not suggesting that people should be talking about Baltimore on HN. I'm saying that they should broaden their reading sources to include news like Baltimore rather than just relying on HN for all their reading)

untog 12y ago

Not to pick on you (too much?) but a combination of coming to HN because of "shared values" and ignoring daily news sites because they're "unhealthy" doesn't sounds great to me. HN is very much a bubble. Not just that it's tech news based, but it's also very geographically centered around Silicon Valley and economically centered around the affluent. To pick a topical example, I'd say that every American ought to know what is going on in Baltimore right now - HN is most definitely not the place to get the full view of a topic like that. And daily news sites don't just do daily news - by example, the Baltimore Sun has a great, in-depth piece that is directly relevant to what's going on right now: http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/police-settlements/ http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/police-settlements/

igravious 12y ago
Or US-centric. A fair proportion of HN-ers are not from the States and we are not interested in local US news. Really, we're not.
- untog 12y ago
  HN is pretty US-centric, though. I get that a significant number of users are not from the US, but the site is undeniably US-centric - and I say this as a non-American. (and just so that we're clear: I'm not suggesting that people should be talking about Baltimore on HN. I'm saying that they should broaden their reading sources to include news like Baltimore rather than just relying on HN for all their reading)