Have you ever felt this sense of weariness on the internet? The idea that nothing is new, you've seen and heard it all before, and just a state of the brain being fried? This happens with increasing frequency to me, and is part of the reason why I seem to be gravitating, inexorably as it were, towards a low-information diet. No facebook, no instagram/snapchat/social media du jour, minimal news, and certainly no trump fever.
I have a feeling the future will look more like the past than we'd like to believe. That eventually, similar to banner-blindness, we'll develop clickbait-blindness and long form, carefully researched and nuanced pieces will be a prerequisite if one wants attention.
That or /r/forwardsfromgrandma, but I hope it's the former.
I've recently been on my own diet, and I have been experimenting with this method, when picking up the phone, set a timer, say 15 minutes and only allocate that much time to news, HN, social media etc.
This is where magazines and some newspapers were good, journalists collated the interesting stuff for us and gave us a digest to read, which was published at most, once per day.
I have a feeling the future will look more like the past than we'd like to believe. That eventually, similar to banner-blindness, we'll develop clickbait-blindness and long form, carefully researched and nuanced pieces will be a prerequisite if one wants attention.
That or /r/forwardsfromgrandma, but I hope it's the former.