Comments on: My 90 days on Low-Information Diet https://www.codejourney.net/my-90-days-on-low-information-diet/ Become a better .NET full stack web developer Sat, 17 Nov 2018 11:57:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Dawid Sibiński https://www.codejourney.net/my-90-days-on-low-information-diet/#comment-162 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 08:10:14 +0000 https://www.dsibinski.pl/?p=2839#comment-162 In reply to Crizzyeyes.

Hey Crizzyeyes,
thanks for your insights.

“What makes a person suited or unsuited for the diet?”
I think it’s mostly the environment in which a person operates. There are thousands of people who are simply interested in politics, news in general and they enjoy reading multiple news websites even to get various points of view. I don’t, so I don’t spend time on it. Everyone would probably have different “diet” depending on situation and point of view. I guess everyone is suited for such low-information diet, but defined differently and with different rules (everyone probably could spend his/her time more efficiently).

Regarding Twitter – maybe it will (or is already) becoming “poisoned”, but what I meant is that following hashtags on Twitter you can quickly see a lot of opinions (tweets have characters limit) so you can much quicker get a lot of different points of view. So even if some tweets are paid by TV/newspapers, you’re able to quicker filter it out and form your own opinion on a particular topic.

]]> By: Dawid Sibiński https://www.codejourney.net/my-90-days-on-low-information-diet/#comment-161 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 08:03:19 +0000 https://www.dsibinski.pl/?p=2839#comment-161 In reply to Oleg Karasik.

Hey Oleg,
thanks for sharing this criteria, it’s also a good approach 🙂

]]> By: Oleg Karasik https://www.codejourney.net/my-90-days-on-low-information-diet/#comment-160 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 05:56:20 +0000 https://www.dsibinski.pl/?p=2839#comment-160 > The question I ask myself reviewing each page/person is: “Has any of this page’s/person’s posts really brought me any value during the previous month?” If the answer is “No” – I unfollow.

I use a slightly different criteria – whether value I get (valuable for me) from following this person is greater than amount of irrelevant (for me of course) stuff produced by the same person.

]]> By: Crizzyeyes https://www.codejourney.net/my-90-days-on-low-information-diet/#comment-159 Wed, 19 Sep 2018 18:21:18 +0000 https://www.dsibinski.pl/?p=2839#comment-159 “Instead of reading/watching news, I talk to people (at work or home) – as soon as something interesting or important happens in the world I got to know about it from them.”

This strategy doesn’t work if everyone were to follow your “low information diet” strategy, because no one would be reading the news. So clearly there is a need for an “outsider person” who does not follow this diet for this diet to work in the first place, which I find interesting. What makes a person suited or unsuited for the diet?

“What’s more, Twitter provides more realistic information, in most cases published by people who are on-site when something happens, so it’s not poisoned or already influenced by public media.”

I wouldn’t count on this. I think it’s a mistake to assume that this will continue to happen as-is. There is a lot of incentive for the “public media” to push back against this, and they have, in some ways. Eventually you may find yourself coming to trust a Twitter account, only to later find out that they were actually being paid off by the BBC for years, just for example.

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