I haven't stopped reading news, but I have changed my habits. Instead of reading news every day, I now do the following:
- I go through my RSS feeds every day but don't read anything. I just bookmark whatever looks interesting based on the headline.
- At the end of the week, I go through the bookmarked articles. 80% are no longer interesting/relevant at that point, or they were low-quality spam. I read the other 20%.
This has worked reasonably well for me. I spent about 15min each day, and then 1-2 hours at the end of the week.
Another thing I do is rely on "top weekly news" at the end of week. As part of the routine above I look at the most upvoted posts on reddit/HN/etc. Doing this daily is too much noise, but relying on the weekly filter works better and is not too much work.
TLDR; I batched all my news reading into a 2 hour window at the end of the week. Trying to follow news in real time is a waste of time. There is too much noise.
- I go through my RSS feeds every day but don't read anything. I just bookmark whatever looks interesting based on the headline.
- At the end of the week, I go through the bookmarked articles. 80% are no longer interesting/relevant at that point, or they were low-quality spam. I read the other 20%.
This has worked reasonably well for me. I spent about 15min each day, and then 1-2 hours at the end of the week.
Another thing I do is rely on "top weekly news" at the end of week. As part of the routine above I look at the most upvoted posts on reddit/HN/etc. Doing this daily is too much noise, but relying on the weekly filter works better and is not too much work.
TLDR; I batched all my news reading into a 2 hour window at the end of the week. Trying to follow news in real time is a waste of time. There is too much noise.