the more news we consume the more misinformed we become.

As news has become easier to distribute and cheaper to produce, the quality has decreased and the quantity has increased, making it nearly impossible to find the signal in the noise

Page views become the name of the game. More page views mean more revenue. When it comes to page views, the more controversy, the more share-ability, the more enraged you become, the better.

Most of what you read online today is pointless. It’s not important to living a good life. It’s not going to help you make better decisions. It’s not going to help you understand the world. It’s not dense with information. It’s not going to help you develop deep and meaningful connections with the people around you.

When you stop reading the news the first thing you notice about people who read the news is how misinformed they are. Often, they cherry-pick one piece of information and give it enormous weight in their opinions.

Instead of getting feedback from reality, they crave validation in the printed opinion of others.

Thinking is hard. It’s much easier to let someone else think for you. Without news in my life, I find that I say “I don’t know” more often.

Stepping back from news is hard. We’re afraid of silence, afraid to be alone with our thoughts.

If you must read the news, read it for the facts and the data, not the opinions.

Winifred Gallagher: “Few things are as important to your quality of life as your choices about how to spend the precious resource of your free time.”