Ask HN: How long should I spend every day reading news?
I'm trying to manage my time better, allocating sessions to read news every day. 2 sessions (after lunch and evening) seem optimal to me but it's maybe too much.
How do you organise yourself ?
The way one processes news cycles- is very much determined by your personal rhythm and energy levels. Here's an interesting take on the optimal time for everything from the WSJ > http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100008723963904441800045780182...
Arguably you could subscribe to something that gives you a competently summarised payload of news at low frequency (monthly?), and spend one long session once a month digesting that.
Otherwise I let the more interesting news bubble up via social media discussions or chatting with people.
I used to be more on top of it, but it really didn't do me a whole lot of good, other than provide me with an extra bullet point or two to bring up with amateur pundits for them to dismiss and bring up a new subject about some little thing they were told to be outraged about today.
I can't say I feel like I'm missing out on too much.
Now I just don't bother and keep up with the important news: board games (via Reddit), tech news (via HN), and video games (via Kotaku).
Probably just as important is what you read, I tend to read the business press because there isn't so much bias and sensationalism as the general media.