No news is good news
I have been a very strong adherent of this philosophy for over 30 years.<p>There’s an adage, “there’s nothing as worthless as yesterday’s news”.  Which led me to wonder, “was it even worth knowing yesterday?”<p>I realized the solution was a low pass filter.<p>I first switched to a seven-page newspaper (CSM) delivered through the mail.  I realised the editors had to figure out whether it would still be interesting by the time it arrived and important enough to take up space in the paper.<p>I soon switched to a weekly newspaper (The Economist) and monthlies.  I haven’t looked back.  The nice thing about a paper like the economist is remained relatively small (few pages) so had to make the same class of decision as the CSM, rather than expand the paper.<p>I also have an RSS list of trade journals and such that I skim once a week, reading the odd title that looks interesting.   Most of the time it’s only a handful of articles.<p>As for the high frequency stuff and stuff outside my bubble: I still talk to people and so I hear about stray stories.  I do find it interesting that I have yet to have anyone bring up the Ukraine situation.  At all.