News is bad for you
While I agree with the sentiment, Rolf Dobelli himself is a plagiarist. This whole reasoning is basically stolen from Nassim Taleb.<p><a href="http://fooledbyrandomness.com/dobelli.htm" rel="nofollow">http://fooledbyrandomness.com/dobelli.htm</a><p><a href="http://blog.chabris.com/2013/09/similarities-between-rolf-dobellis-book.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.chabris.com/2013/09/similarities-between-rolf-do...</a><p>EDIT: For another take on not reading the news, see <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews" rel="nofollow">http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews</a>