How are you consuming news these days?
I did something weird for a tech savvy person in 2025. I signed up for a newspaper and magazine subscription. Like physical paper delivered to my door. Weird, I know. There’s something about the smell of newspaper and the texture of a magazine. It’s different.
This summer, I spent a week without any tech at a church camp with my kids. It was eye opening. For the last month, I’ve been trying to get some of that back. There’s something deeply unhealthy having the constant barrage of social media, news, video shorts, echo chambers and all that Web 2.0 brought us. I can fall down the rabbit hole of YouTube recommendations, Reddit,or FB marketplace, then look up and realize an hour has gone by and my brain is mush.
So I cut stuff out completely. It’s a media elimination diet. First, take it all out and see if you feel better (Yes I do), then start adding it back in to see what’s still healthy.
I just order a Boox eReader to replace my aging Kindle (and to eliminate the last of pre-USB-C devices) and I’m going to try to ease back into more media. Probably with mostly the Libby app and some carefully selected RSS feeds. In this process, I’m finding it’s actually easier and cheaper to just let the algorithms take over. To be more selective actually takes more time and probably a few purchased apps and subscriptions.
How are you limiting your consuming media these days? What healthy boundaries have you established? Any recommendations for RSS readers or workflows to limit the stream of media?
