I had exactly that feeling a while ago. I was looking at HN, lobste.rs, reddit, my tech-news-filled RSS reader at least hourly. My Twitter timeline was packed w

I had exactly that feeling a while ago. I was looking at HN, lobste.rs, reddit, my tech-news-filled RSS reader at least hourly. My Twitter timeline was packed with tech people, and my podcatcher was subscribed to 50 or so tech podcasts. This way, I always heard about the newest scandals, *-gates, dramas, etc and I spent a lot of energy and time thinking about them, discussing them with people on Twitter. I let every little piece of drama get to me. I felt exhausted. I felt angry most of the time. I was frustrated. So, I just stopped. No HN, deleted my Twitter account, didn't attend any tech related event. I unsubscribed from most of the podcasts I was listening to, added some about the things that are going on in the world or other topics that interest me. Or simply didn't listen to anything at all. When I was walking home from work, listening to nature and interacting with the people around me helped so much getting out of this "oh my gosh, there's so much going on in the tech world, I cant' miss out on anything..." feeling. I also (re)started some hobbies that involved me getting away from the computer. Started building and flying multicopter/drone (well, ok, this is somewhat tech related, but not sitting in front of the notebook all the time), cycling, taking long walks, geocaching, ... I started feeling better and I think that I found a good mixture of "both worlds". I usually look at the top page of HN once a day (before I was constantly refreshing the newest-section), have a new Twitter with a good mixture of tech- and non-tech-people. And I usually stay away from the computer in my free-time. I don't feel like I'm missing anything. The important topics will reach me eventually (maybe through colleagues). So I might not be on the forefront of everything that's going on. But who really needs this? I thought, I did. Now I know, I don't. edit: Added a sentence about the hobbies that I forgot to put there.