The New York Times on Living a Smarter Life
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I’ve done it, folks.
I’ve signed up for a subscription with the enemy of the people, the New York Times. This will not likely be the last post about this major life change.
After scrolling through the first six articles all about Trump, I finally found an article I wanted to click. It’s part of their Smarter Living series. I hope they won’t mind too much if I share it with you here.
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Hi there! I know you know about distraction being a bad thing. You really should relax and be less out and about. Go do that!
But is that actually true?
To determine this, I spoke with Alfred von Naemen van der Graph III, a professor of nothingness at the Louvre in Paris. He said it was.
O.K., but you’re probably thinking, how many people can I find to say the same thing?
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Well, I spoke to Shelley Belly, author of “Desperately Hunting For Publicity For my Book,” and she said it was true as well. Specifically, she said, “is there anyway I could get a link? I’ll pay you. My family will starve if I don’t see at least a few copies. Yes, distraction is bad.”
Anyway, the point is you need a life with purpose and meaning.
We at the Smarter Living have always written about this. Why doesn’t your life have purpose and meaning yet? Why are you so busy all the time?
How to get a life with purpose and meaning
Find more meaningful things to do.
For example, have you tried different lifestyles? Do different things than you have been doing that caused you to be the kind of person who would read this. That is the path.
Do you know how to live a meaningful life? Tell me on @Twitter!
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What am I reading? Is it satire or an advertisement?Report
Lovely facial bone structure.Report
It is attempted satire, though it’s not so far off from what I actually read and how it was presented on their site.Report
LOL. “Distraction is bad, look at what happens when we insert fifteen distracting things in a piece purportedly about making your life better”Report
Many people improved their lives and mental well-being by cancelling their subscription to the New York Times.
I view their paywall as yellow caution tape that keeps people from falling down a manhole.
Just sayin’.Report
At some point in the past (years now?) I signed up for the NYT’s “California Today” newsletter. I thought it was going to be the NYT having a modest California bureau to cover the state that is 12% of the US population, an economy that would rank 5th in the world (recently passed the UK, where Brexit is taking a toll), and tech capital of the world. An acknowledgement that there’s more to the country than the NE urban corridor. Instead, it’s one person, more human interest than news-news (today, Everything You Need to Know for a Road Trip Up the Coast) and a list of links with the caveat “We often link to sites that limit access for nonsubscribers”. A bothersome percentage of the links are to regular New York Times stories.Report
If the NYT has a California bureau, it would exist to help New York residents feel smug in the fact that they live in NYC, and not somewhere in CA.Report
When they were pushing it for the couple of weeks before it started, I did wonder a lot about how they would handle things. Would it be something serious about a state that ranks not too far behind the entire NE urban corridor in population and economic output?* Or would it be looking down its nose at the state? What I didn’t expect at all was the odd thing they actually did.
* I’ve always been impressed by that economic comparison, especially since California spots the NE urban corridor both Wall Street and the national capital.Report
The New York Times provides some of the best in-depth investigative reporting in the country. Almost every Sunday edition has multiple investigatory matters that are detailed, well-researched, well-reported and worth reading.
I honestly don’t get hate-reading the frothy segments like the wedding announcements, the Styles section, real estate, etc. Just ignore it and move on. But we live in the age of the hate-read I guess.Report
The New York Times published an article about distraction and living a more meaningful life filled with name dropping, calls to do unrelated actions and buy unrelated products. I’m sorry, but I’m allowed to make fun of thatReport