One way to not get stuck in fast-twitch information streams: get your news from newspapers.

A day after it happens, not as-it-happens.

That gives some time for synthesis and distillation.

It also gives some time for perspective: what was the stack rank of most important things that happened yesterday?

Online sources can have infinite content, updated infinitely quickly.

But newspapers have scarce space and have a built in time delay.

They naturally regularize the signal.

Even better would be once-a-week roll-ups of curated what matters most.