Watch what you read.

We're living in a Never-Ending Now.

“No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Daily news companies are masters are magnifying trivialities because they'll go out of business if they can't. By making the talk of the day seem so important, they distract us from the deeper and more informative currents of society.

This line from William Randolph Hearst's biography stands out: "The measure of a commercially successful newspaper is not simply how well it reports the big events, but what it does when there are no dying statesmen, bloodthirsty desperadoes, or heinous crimes to write about."

The majority of things we see on the Internet were created within the past 24 hours, which blinds us to the wisdom of history.

I don't blame the news companies though. The root of the problem begins with the problematic structure of the Internet, which has a huge recency bias.

Attention is zero-sum. The opportunity cost of reading the news is saying no to the best things ever published.

By placing such tremendous weight on ideas that have been published recently, we're deprioritizing the care, durability, and thoughtfulness of what we consume.

If you're looking for timeless ideas and need some recommendations, I've spent the past five years collecting some for you.

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