> In the words of Warren Buffett: "What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact."
That confirms what I always thought.
News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier
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#132The author should have added a TL;DR "ignorance is bliss" at the top.
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#133This is why, paraphrasing Taleb, I shun newspapers and TV and keep hoary tomes by my bedside.
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#134News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier (guardian news .com)
Hmm...
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#135Hence the phrase: ignorance is bliss.
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#136I've come to a similar conclusion. Because news emphasizes the dramatic over the contextual, they're always providing me poor information in an even poorer context. That's just the way the business works. I've done something weird, though: I switched to plaintext commentary. So each day I scan my personal news site, http://newspaper23.com . It only does commentary. I find that by scanning the titles I can see what ne…
I wish this article would have presented some empirical evidence.
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#137I don't read news anymore. I haven't, for years.
After reading a newspaper I didn't remember anything of what I had read. I was as well off after reading the paper as before reading it. The same with internet news sites, there's just... news, everywhere. It doesn't seem to stick, and it doesn't change my life.
If something truly important happens, the information will eventually trickle down to myself via friends and friends of friends. I can then look it up on the internet, and read more.
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#138See also "I Hate the News" by Aaron Swartz http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
In the article (written in 2006), Aaron Swartz wrote: "This seems to be true, but the curious thing is that I’m never involved. The government commits a crime, the New York Times prints it on the front page, the people on the cable chat shows foam at the mouth about it, the government apologizes and commits the crime more subtly. It’s a valuable system — I certainly support the government being more subtle about comm…
Seriously? Is that what happened? Completely unprovoked, the government did something bad?
I kinda read that he broke the law and the government were prosecuting him for it.
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#139I once thought about starting a news service that only publishes good news, but the problem would be, that probably nobody would read it.
Re: News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier
#140I've come to a similar conclusion. Because news emphasizes the dramatic over the contextual, they're always providing me poor information in an even poorer context. That's just the way the business works. I've done something weird, though: I switched to plaintext commentary. So each day I scan my personal news site, http://newspaper23.com . It only does commentary. I find that by scanning the titles I can see what ne…
http://newspaper23.com looks like a great site. I've been looking for something that just shows headlines and doesn't require launching into an image-heavy site just to read the article. However, the JavaScript appears to be broken in Chrome. Switching categories doesn't work, for example.