Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jun 4, 2014All news isn't noise. Only news blocked by good social filtering is. Dismissing all news as noise is just Luddite tuning incompetence.212
Stef 🜃@stef·Jun 4, 2014Replying to @vgr@vgr here's my take on ignoring the news - there's more nuance involved https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/ignore-the-news-297e47e6f78b…1
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @stef@stef you're conflating news and parenting seems to me. What you're solving crudely by turning radio off is what social filters solve well.6:24 AM · Jun 4, 2014
Stef 🜃@stef·Jun 4, 2014Replying to @vgr@vgr hardly - I've been doing this ever since and I get a lot of benefit from filtering out the pointless and focussing on the valuable.