News Is Bad for You—and Giving Up Reading It Will Make You Happier (2013)
The GuardianFive years before the word “doomscroll” entered the cultural lexicon, the Pocket community anointed this Guardian piece one of the top saved pieces of the year. “The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don’t really concern our lives and don’t require thinking,” Rolf Dobelli wrote in 2013, years before TikTok was invented to perfect that very model.