{"id":1918,"date":"2020-03-22T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2020-03-20T14:48:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:48:26","slug":"curate-your-incoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1918","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Curate Your Incoming&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1914\">yesterday<\/a> that we should limit our exposure to news (should I say &#8220;self-isolate&#8221;?). It&#8217;s gratifying when people smarter than I are saying the same things I&#8217;m saying. Seth Godin wrote a lovely piece entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/seths.blog\/2020\/03\/calm-also-has-a-coefficient\/\">Calm also has a coefficient<\/a>. I recommend the entire article, but here are a few snippets:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Panic loves company. And yet calm is our practical, efficient, rational alternative.<\/li><li> Twitter has been engineered to <em>maximize<\/em> panic. Calm is penalized, panic is amplified.  <\/li><li> When cable \u201cnews\u201d showed up, they discovered that panic was a great way to make a profit. Not to make things better, simply to spread anger and fear. <\/li><li>Curate your incoming. Stay off Twitter.<\/li><li>Being up-to-date on the news is a trap and a scam. <strong>Five minutes a day is all you need.<\/strong> (emphasis mine)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. (John 14.27, NIV) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote yesterday that we should limit our exposure to news (should I say &#8220;self-isolate&#8221;?). It&#8217;s gratifying when people smarter than I are saying the same things I&#8217;m saying. Seth Godin wrote a lovely piece entitled Calm also has a coefficient. I recommend the entire article, but here are a few snippets: Panic loves company. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=1918\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Curate Your Incoming&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-uW","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}