I’ve read Tim Ferriss’ 4-Hour Work Week, and his proposal of a low-information diet made me think. I cut down my newspaper-reading to zero. Not even online. And I am very grateful that I did — I don’t miss it at all.
...and then I’ve run across this quote from Thomas Jefferson:
“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”
I laughed out loud. The idea wasn’t so new.
Then I leveraged the time I earned by overindulging in Lesswrong, Overcomingbias, Wikipedia and other precious sources. And reading more books.
Still propositional knowledge, but clearly more enlightening than the daily fix of murders and gossips.
I’ve read Tim Ferriss’ 4-Hour Work Week, and his proposal of a low-information diet made me think. I cut down my newspaper-reading to zero. Not even online. And I am very grateful that I did — I don’t miss it at all.
...and then I’ve run across this quote from Thomas Jefferson: “I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”
I laughed out loud. The idea wasn’t so new.
Then I leveraged the time I earned by overindulging in Lesswrong, Overcomingbias, Wikipedia and other precious sources. And reading more books.
Still propositional knowledge, but clearly more enlightening than the daily fix of murders and gossips.