How I stopped reading the news

Everytime I plan something, I usually don’t follow through. I never planned to stop reading the news. Yet here I am - newsless.

I had several news sources in my RSS feed. Few days ago I realized I keep hitting the “Mark all as read” button all the time on these. I got bored with news. It’s too depressing. It’s too negative. It’s biased. It’s unnecessary.

I am not advocating for ignorance. I am just talking about news fatigue. The state, when there is simply too much information attacking my brain and I can’t cope with it.

All the news sources have been removed from my feed now. As well as the relevant subscriptions. How do I still get informed about important stuff? I don’t really know. I still find out about stuff. I do glance quickly through Kagi News these days. This gives me headlines and some bullet points.

But what about context? You can’t get that from headlines only, Bobo!

True. I just don’t want any context most of the time these days. If something is interesting to me, I will dig deeper into it. I decided that current affairs are not what steers my life from now on. I don’t care what stupid, fascist thing Trump did in the US. I don’t care how much money did Fico and his friends stole in Slovakia again. I don’t need to know every sentence Babiš told to the Czech president these days. It doesn’t help me in any way.

The realization that a constant news cycle is not needed is liberating. I hope, this will also help me with my unhealthy addiction to Reddit and my phone in general.

Baby steps. But important steps.