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milosz wrote:If you're worried about staying informed and being knowledgable, you'd still do well to completely ignore political process stories. That's 90% of what the bad media - Fox, MSNBC, etc. - sells you. That shit isn't news.

BucketHead wrote:I have made no conscious effort in the last 3 years to seek out "news". I don't flip to news channels, I don't subscribe to news feeds, and I don't read newspapers or magazines.

Yet, I have yet to be caught "unaware" of something truly newsworthy.

In today's world, real news will find you.

Grandpa's Spells wrote:I was reading an interview with James Altucher, who's kind of quacky, but he pointed out during a talk about avoiding negativity that never consuming news is a good idea. The idea being that news organizations typically sell everything as "THE WORST THING EVER," even though this is never the case.

I see this in people I know who have Fox News on all day (Fox Geezer Syndrome is real), but I have a number of RSS feeds I read throughout the day, and there's usually a fair amount of complaining going on.

Tim Ferriss talks about not consuming news as it's usually a time waster, but his endorsing the idea actually makes me want to do the opposite.

Experiences?

Fat Cat wrote:

Grandpa's Spells wrote:I was reading an interview with James Altucher, who's kind of quacky, but he pointed out during a talk about avoiding negativity that never consuming news is a good idea. The idea being that news organizations typically sell everything as "THE WORST THING EVER," even though this is never the case.

I see this in people I know who have Fox News on all day (Fox Geezer Syndrome is real), but I have a number of RSS feeds I read throughout the day, and there's usually a fair amount of complaining going on.

Tim Ferriss talks about not consuming news as it's usually a time waster, but his endorsing the idea actually makes me want to do the opposite.

Experiences?

YES. The common perception is that we can consume media without any type of effect, it just passes through us. You hear arguments to the contrary all the time: "violent media doesn't make you violent" or "pornography won't affect my views of women" but that is not true. I don't pass judgment on other people's choices, but I try to be both aware of, and somewhat careful with, my media choices. We are all far more impressionable than we like to admit and that's true of our choices in personal association as well, environment, etc.

On a more subtle level, news is designed to provide an illusion of control over things but you have no control over civil war in Syria, a pulmonary disease spreading in Saudi Arabia, melting polar ice caps, fucking al-Qaeda, etc. and preoccupation with these things causes additional allostatic load on your organism and makes it more difficult to focus on the small-scale, immediate challenges which you DO have the capacity to affect. We should expend our energy looking after the people and things around us.

WildGorillaMan wrote:Twitter and an innate ability to know when someone is pissing on your leg and telling you it's raining.

Fat Cat wrote:On a more subtle level, news is designed to provide an illusion of control over things but you have no control over civil war in Syria, a pulmonary disease spreading in Saudi Arabia, melting polar ice caps, fucking al-Qaeda, etc. and preoccupation with these things causes additional allostatic load on your organism and makes it more difficult to focus on the small-scale, immediate challenges which you DO have the capacity to affect. We should expend our energy looking after the people and things around us.

syaigh wrote:I stopped watching the news with regularity around the time I had my kids. It seemed every day there was something horrible being done to a baby and I couldn't really deal with that very well as a new mother.

lasalle wrote:...self professed genius Nassim Taleb...

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:Taleb fucking loves how smart he is, doesn't he? I bet he's never been punched in the mouth.

Who is my mentor? I have inverse mentors: people I learnt to not imitate,’ says the scholar and philosopher

WildGorillaMan wrote:

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:Taleb fucking loves how smart he is, doesn't he? I bet he's never been punched in the mouth.

How physically fit are you?
I lift heavy weights and sprint but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries. Like now.

BucketHead wrote:

WildGorillaMan wrote:

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:Taleb fucking loves how smart he is, doesn't he? I bet he's never been punched in the mouth.

How physically fit are you?
I lift heavy weights and sprint but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries. Like now.