“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.” — A. J. Liebling

• 24 hours each day isn’t enough to consume 0.0001% of the world’s events
• The Paradox of News: The more news you consume, the less informed you are about the world.
• Want to know more about the world? Turn off the news and go spend time in it.
• Nassim Taleb’s “Noise Bottleneck”
  • More data leads to a higher ratio of noise-to-signal
  • By consuming more, you end up knowing less about what’s actually going on.
• Gell-Mann Razor
  • Assume every media article contains a certain percent of false information.
  • Sandbox the article from your worldview until you’ve:
    • Seen primary sources
    • Spoken to 3 domain experts