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Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

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757 points headalgorithm | 2 comments | 05 Feb 25 14:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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karaterobot ◴[05 Feb 25 15:33 UTC] No.42949929[source]▶
Avoid following the news constantly. Check in every once in a while—a couple times a week at most. Get your news from long articles, not tweets. Actually read the articles, don't just learn about the world from hot takes.

> ... people have found that, actually, outrage can be useful. It actually can help you identify a problem and react to it. But it can also be harmful if you’re experiencing it all the time and become overwhelmed by it.

I'm reading that as meaning something more like identify a problem and act on it. Outrage itself is a reaction, just not a positive one. There's no shortage of people reacting to things.

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the_snooze ◴[05 Feb 25 16:38 UTC] No.42951057[source]▶
>Avoid following the news constantly. Check in every once in a while—a couple times a week at most. Get your news from long articles, not tweets. Actually read the articles, don't just learn about the world from hot takes.

This 100%. If a piece of news is truly important, then it'll be important tomorrow or even a week from now. You'll even get clarifications and corrections along the way.

I like to use Pocket to build a list of long-form articles I want to read, then EpubPress (https://epub.press/) to compile that into a weekly EPUB that I can read in-full on a distraction-free e-book reader. It's a much less stressful way of consuming media than the whole neverending drug-frenzied quick-hits world of online news.

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upcoming-sesame ◴[05 Feb 25 21:30 UTC] No.42955459[source]▶
If that could somehow be automated that would be cool
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genewitch ◴[05 Feb 25 22:10 UTC] No.42956008[source]▶
you mean like Time magazine or LA Weekly?
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upcoming-sesame ◴[05 Feb 25 22:18 UTC] No.42956099{3}[source]▶
I meant a curated list of interesting articles for me sent as an epub to my kindle weekly...
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lmm ◴[06 Feb 25 07:55 UTC] No.42960122{4}[source]▶
You mean like what happens if you subscribe to TIME on your kindle?
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1. cma ◴[06 Feb 25 11:42 UTC] No.42961445{5}[source]▶
For a billionaire perspective curated list yes:

> Since 2018, Time has been owned by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, who acquired it from Meredith Corporation. Benioff currently publishes the magazine through the company Time USA, LLC.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)

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2. lmm ◴[07 Feb 25 00:10 UTC] No.42967828[source]▶
Shrug. If you want something curated that's always going to mean someone is curating it.