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James Altucher writes interesting stuff when he’s not shilling cryptocurrency and penny stocks. His newsletter yesterday informed the readership that he’s going on an ‘attention diet’: The news scares me. It doesn’t matter that disease is down year after year, violent deaths are down year after year, literacy is up, …

One of the smartest things I’ve ever done is to ignore the news. I haven’t watched network news or a 24 hour cable news channel in over a decade. I don’t read any of the mainstream news websites, nor do I read newspapers. I’ve been doing my best to willfully …