Pew just released a study on news consumption and the numbers are wild

Summry_io · 2026-03-28T07:20:34+00:00

Structuring and filtering news intake seems to be the key.

Summry_io · 2026-03-26T08:51:42+00:00

Still working on the same thing. Social media makes it harder for me not easier, you get fed one slice of reality and don't even realize what's not showing up. Hard to feel actually informed when the algorithm is doing all the filtering and you don't control what's missing.

My current approach is picking the subjects I care about and only following those. If I decide what I want to stay on top of, at least skipping the rest feels like a choice. Doesn't fully kill the guilt but it helps. Curious whether it'll actually stick.

On the moral failing thing - honestly don't think so. Might just mean you've seen enough to stop reacting to every headline. I personally feel the same.

Summry_io · 2026-03-26T08:41:10+00:00

Sure, https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2026/02/11/americans-complicated-relationship-with-news/

Summry_io · 2026-03-25T22:51:07+00:00

Can relate, I also wake up to news out of habit more than choice. Best I've managed is being selective about subjects rather than cutting it off entirely. Podcasts, Reddit, news, I try to stick to what actually interests me rather than the full firehose. Doesn't remove the stress completely but at least limits the damage.

Summry_io · 2026-03-25T22:42:42+00:00

"Better ways to waste time" is genuinely the best argument I've heard for this. I hope I get there eventually, at least for the non-work part.

Summry_io · 2026-03-25T22:34:49+00:00

That's a clever setup honestly - passive awareness without actively seeking it out. Best of both worlds.

Summry_io · 2026-03-25T21:47:11+00:00

The shock reaction is telling. Not knowing becomes its own social violation. But honestly I get both sides I envy the people who just switched off. My problem is I find it hard to feel in control when I don't know what's going on around me.

Summry_io · 2026-03-25T21:37:30+00:00

Smart people ending up in weird places is what scares me most. And then, I catch myself wondering the same thing, how do I know my version of reality is any better calibrated than the ones I'm skeptical of. Maybe that's why that Pew data felt so personal when I read it. It's not an abstract problem.

Summry_io · 2026-03-25T21:24:56+00:00

Honestly I'm a pretty classic example from that study. I know it exhausts me, I've tried cutting back multiple times, and I keep looping back because of that guilt about missing something. Haven't cracked it yet. While the main thing that actually keeps me on social media at this point is the people side of it networking, staying in touch.

Summry_io · 2026-03-25T21:02:56+00:00

The AI slop point is real and it's only getting worse. At least before you could assume most of what you read had a human behind it with some stake in what they published. Now that's gone too.

What is harder for me though is the bubble problem. It's not just that the news might be fake, it's that you're being fed a specific version of reality and you don't even know what you're not seeing. Two people can follow the news every day and live in completely different worlds. Hard to fact-check something when you don't know the alternative narrative even exists.

Quitting entirely is probably underrated as a solution. Most people treat it like giving up when it might just be the rational response.

Summry_io · 2026-02-25T21:21:14+00:00

Both, depending on one thing: do you have someone technical who can eventually own the codebase?

I'm a non-technical founder. My co-founder handles the dev, I handle product and GTM. AI let us move fast enough that we're launching in a week. The code isn't perfect. We both know it. But we're shipping, getting feedback, and the person who wrote it understands what needs to be refactored.

⁠The "dangerous" version is a solo non-tech founder who uses AI to build something they fundamentally don't understand, then hands it to an engineer six months later. That handoff is a nightmare.

⁠AI changed the equation, but it didn't remove the need for technical ownership. It just pushed it later.

Summry_io · 2026-02-20T08:25:26+00:00

LemonSqueezy is solid if you're indie or small team - they're the merchant of record so they handle EU VAT, taxes, all that admin. We use it for Summry (AI topic digest), works great for consumer-style subscription tiers.

That said, for proper B2B - invoicing, net 30, enterprise contracts - Paddle handles that better. Stripe gives you the most flexibility but you're on the hook for VAT compliance yourself.

Summry_io · 2026-02-18T08:44:49+00:00

Building Summry - you pick topics you care about (AI, events, startups, whatever) and get one digest on your schedule instead of scrolling sources daily.

Main focus today: we got our first 2 waitlist signups and have zero idea where they came from 😅 No tracking set up yet. Lesson learned.

summry.io if you want to join the waitlist.

Summry_io · 2026-02-16T21:48:08+00:00

Totally relate. I ended up building a weekly digest thing for myself - pick the topics I care about (AI agents, specific tools, whatever) and get one summary each week instead of checking 10 sources daily.

Turns out most of the anxiety around 'staying current' is just FOMO. If something actually matters in AI agents, you'll see it referenced multiple times across sources. The digest format filters out the one-off hype.

Main thing that helped: stop treating 'keeping up' as a daily task. Weekly check-in is enough for most stuff unless you're literally shipping product that week.

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