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The Answer Is Not More Information
Events that don’t touch your life or affect those you care about or the communities you serve—particularly events that are outside of your control—are generally not worth tending to. Deliberately consuming less digital information helps you shrink your surface area of concern, which leads you to be exposed to less chronic stress.
Chris Bailey • How to Calm Your Mind: Finding Presence and Productivity in Anxious Times
Israel strikes Iran. A compulsion to doom scroll, but watching myself as I do it. There’s worry, but also a scanning for both clarity and novelty. The main problem is that the same factoids are being repeated over and over; it’s quite hard to obtain new and developing information. What’s happened in the last 30 minutes? It’s a weird paradox; you ob
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