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This is my fifth annual audit of the food I feed my brain, except for books (the most important ingredient for brain health, which you can find here). For comparison, my prior Media Diets are available here: 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019.

Continue reading 2023 Media Diet

Similar to designing a healthy nutrition plan, it’s important to take control of the content you consume. Every year I revisit my media consumption strategy and take stock of the regulars in my rotation. For comparison, here are my Media Diets from 2021, 2020, and 2019.

Continue reading 2022 Media Diet

A strategy for choosing what to read, watch and listen to

Last year, in AF Media Diet 2019, I compared media to food, and argued that:

Therefore, it’s crucial for our health to strategize and develop healthy media consumption habits as we would design a nutritious diet.

Now, in the face of a catastrophic pandemic, as we struggle to filter vital signals from harmful noise, it’s more important than ever to spend time and energy thinking about the content we consume.

As such, I’m going to revisit the media diet principles I sketched out last year to see how they hold up in the COVID-19 media landscape — where the stakes are higher, the noise is louder, and the right signal can save lives — and where we’re even more dependent on (and flooded by) digital social networks and distributed publishers.

Despite the fire hose of clamoring content, it’s times like these I value and appreciate free speech — despite the mess — more than ever. There’s more crap to swat away, but we know the truth is out there too. And it’s up to us — each one of us — to find the truth, follow it, question it, amplify it, and live it.

Continue reading Media Diet 2020