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Comment by zemvpferreira | Hacker News Reader

Personally I have resorted to batching, narrowing my scope, raising my quality threshold and making peace with missing out. Summarizing tools don’t interest me in the least, I read to think. News are inessential, opinions are good brain food.

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Opinion writers are frequently at odds with actual events and facts. They dont get factchecked as much as news writers - even in the same journal. In fact, they dont get fact checked at all.

> opinions are good brain food.

Quite the opposite, IMHO. Opinions are cheap filler. They're like revision notes for Shakespeare's plays before an exam.

News, actual news, is important but expensive to gather and produce. Only a few agencies such as Reuters and AP actually work at that level.

Right. But my point was that newer and newer sources will start popping. "Missing out" will become the dominant mode. But maybe this is just a misguided interpolation on my behalf.

I don't have a good concept of how this can be solved at the moment.

Missing out has been the dominant mode since language was invented, we've just never had as much access or been as aware of what we were missing out on. But you could have read Newton's thoughts instead of the news today or any yesterday in your life. Which is more valuable? Given a limited capacity for information processing I find it's best to spend the least amount I can on worry and the most on the stuff that I will actually enjoy wrestling with.

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