Elon Musk on avoiding daily news:
“The daily news I find to be a lot of noise. Generally newspapers seem to try to answer the question, ‘What is the worst thing that happened on the Earth today?’”
“The daily news I find to be a lot of noise. Generally newspapers seem to try to answer the question, ‘What is the worst thing that happened on the Earth today?’”
If you know anyone who gets really depressed or anxious when reading the news there are sites like https://happynews.com/ that can really help them though it can be tough to ween people off the regular news. The constant stream of doom and gloom has an addictive quality I don’t quite comprehend.
Particularly jarring is the constant fixation that is going on in the news with Daily COVID-19 data. There is simply too much daily variation that has nothing to do with how the virus is spreading and affecting each location. A huge waste of attention and resources with titles such as "Largest number of new cases in a day since March!"... so what?
So it is completely relevant when he is being treated as authority.
“[…] they think these are aberrations; that underneath all this, the news is worth saving. I simply go one step further: I think none of it is worthwhile.”