Comment by senko

I try to balance being informed and ignoring the mostly irrelevant hot topics du jour.

My approach:

* world: weekly Economist coverage of world/biz/general topics (audio via app) - keeps me generally up to date

* local: daily digest mail of notable news from yesterday from my country (which is too insignificant to appear in the Economist); scraped from multiple sources, digest by an LLM

* Hacker News digest mail, top 50 posts from the previous day (drawback is I'm often late to the discussion, like with this one, but can also be a blessing)

* ArsTechnica digest - used to be a subscriber but nowadays just grab new article links once a day

I read the digests as my "morning paper", and skip most of the links there (from ~100 in total I end up reading ~10), but am still "in the loop"

I also find about stuff in conversations with friends and social media (x/bsky/li for me). I also try to minimize the latter, but that's for another comment :)