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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 7
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    Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy

    My life got surprisingly better after o started treating the news like this without first recruiting 30 part-time analysts.https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1214726737302392832 …

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    Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv
    One of my joking-but-serious suggestions is that news consumption should be done in a sort of rotating watch. Ie I read the news today, you read the news tomorrow, watch duty maybe shared by about 30-60 trusted people, maybe more. If anything important happens I’ll let you know
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    • Chris Allen🇻🇦(Καλό Πάσχα!) K Eugene Dobry Vašek Ostrožlík Murali sankar Andrew Catton Iain P 😷 Simon Sarris 🇺🇸Elliot Temple🤔
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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 7
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        First thoughts: “But I have to read the newspaper every day to stay up to date.” Second thoughts: “On what topic?” First thoughts: “You know, current events and politics and stuff.” Second thoughts: “What’s last major decision you changed based on what you read in newspaper?”

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 7
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        First thoughts: “...” Second thoughts: “Which decision do you make which should be instead delegated to a research briefing written by a 24 year old liberal arts graduate you’ve never met?” First thoughts: “... OK now you’re piling on.” Second thoughts: “They call you an eyeball”

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      1. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv Jan 7
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        Replying to @patio11

        (Same, just riffing with alternate presentations of the idea with the cheeky knowledge that it eventually leads to the same conclusion 😜)

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      1. Will Critchlow‏Verified account @willcritchlow Jan 8
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        Replying to @patio11

        I once mocked up a script that ran over the reddit API and only showed news that was "genuinely outlier" (based on historical levels). Essentially a reddit homepage with by default nothing on it. Couldn't figure out the right subreddits to run it on tho

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      1. Vítor Galvão‏ @vhgalvao Jan 7
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        Aaron Swartz had a post on not following the news. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews …

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      1. Nick Ribal @  🇪🇸‏ @elektronik2k5 Jan 7
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        Yeah, "the news" is just infotainment and sensationalism. I hear enough of it second hand from people IRL and via social media - and even that strong filter results in poor SNR. In the extremely rare case of real news which may actually interest me, I look it up myself.

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      1. Jaco van der Walt‏ @JacoBreaksRules Jan 8
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        Same. Stopped actively reading daily news and found that the “important” stuff tends to find you through friends/colleagues anyway - after which you can decide to research further. It’s a great way to adjust the signal to noise ratio.

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      2. Artur Piszek‏ @artpi Jan 8
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        It really sinked in when I learned it's called 'News' vs 'Information' like in Poland. Same for 'Social Media' vs 'Online Community'.

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      3. Artur Piszek‏ @artpi Jan 8
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        Artur Piszek Retweeted Artur Piszek

        After reading 'The Clock of the Long Now' I shamelessly ignore immediacy. It's glorious.https://twitter.com/artpi/status/1175815126261407747?s=19 …

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        Artur Piszek @artpi
        Book thread 📖 🧵 👇 "The clock of the long now" by @stewartbrand - a book about a group of engineers building a clock that will keep a time for 10 000 years as a symbol for long-term thinking and focusing on the longer time scales instead of here and immediate. pic.twitter.com/fx66xWLBCQ
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      1. Aurelia Cotta‏ @AureliaCotta Jan 9
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        For people who love these subjects, they do change what we do right away and what we plan to do in the future. We also know who is worth reading and who isn't worth it. And yes you are fully capable of doing this too, just set parameters, times of day, subjects.

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