https://jb.news 2025-01-21T18:43:00+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E1912203306849332156524287737728/Screenshot-2024-08-09-at-11.38.54AM.png https://jb.news/header-desktop 2025-01-21T18:35:02+00:00 always 0.5 https://jb.news/header-mobile 2025-01-21T18:43:29+00:00 always 0.5 https://jb.news/overlay 2024-10-31T00:52:19+00:00 always 0.5 https://jb.news/long-live-dead-news 2024-10-31T05:16:55+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E1912203306849332156524287737728/Screenshot-2024-08-09-at-11.38.54AM.png What is happening here? https://jb.news/getting-started 2024-10-31T05:16:55+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I1930402824633699824641163640704/Screenshot-2024-08-20-at-9.42.23PM.png Big Sur, California https://jb.news/in-praise-of-distracting-objects 2024-10-31T05:16:55+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1927319566875290662657761460096/Screenshot-2024-08-18-at-11.16.30PM.png Apple’s new ‘AI’ https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N1930169449155932662253708623744/Screenshot-2024-08-20-at-6.11.32PM.png Adobe’s AI offers hallucinations instead of ‘distractions’.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C1930173688715782890698827874176/Screenshot-2024-08-20-at-6.15.22PM.png The App Store is filled with software promising to remove ‘objects’ or ‘unwanted objects’. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H1930180988738048900148236631936/Trocadero.jpg The Trocadero during the Olympics Opening Ceremony. Would Adobe classify Olympians as ‘distractions’? https://jb.news/we're-all-our-own-editors-now 2024-10-31T05:16:55+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1974768605242429519010619178880/Screenshot-2024-09-17-at-8.46.56PM.png <i>Editor’s </i> decline, via Google nGram.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1974776403382125750839050223488/Screenshot-2024-09-17-at-8.53.58PM.png Google nGram https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I1974779038536410168395917672320/Screenshot-2024-09-17-at-8.56.21PM.png Google nGram https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U1974783741902746642120293203840/Screenshot-2024-09-17-at-9.00.37PM.png U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L1974785233026857096358188531584/Screenshot-2024-09-17-at-9.01.57PM.png Google nGram  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1974786187498288958237808246656/Screenshot-2024-09-17-at-9.02.48PM.png Google nGram https://jb.news/the-hot-start-problem 2024-10-31T05:16:55+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2028722977373870806232184635264/56F90089-D893-4B35-A0E9-266123B0711C.png Chaos inside a hot-start network.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2028729453306292066781084499840/D5372FB6-F4E7-4AD9-9E8F-39BDB98C3C75.png Cold-start networks (l) and hot-start networks (r) are opposites that suffer the same outcome: humans exit when they don’t know how to start.   https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2028775189610146100032074661760/Screenshot-2024-10-21-at-3.02.00PM.png <i>News avoidance</i> continues its rocket-ship ascent.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2028858673246590492180312473472/10721139-539A-4AAE-84B9-97FA9712C475.png With Frontpage we’re designing new patterns to strengthen signal and reduce chaos.   https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2030147505546932227894426189696/Screenshot-2024-10-22-at-11.41.53AM.png Four years of reading data in one slide. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2030186127624126562098611470208/Screenshot-2024-10-22-at-12.16.45PM.png Our experiments to elevate high-quality news by stretching time. https://jb.news/overcoming-news-exhaustion-rebuilding-resilience 2025-08-06T16:38:59+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2039905846056198688222266769280/Screenshot-2024-10-28-at-2.38.35PM.png 2022’s sleep loss because of too much news. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2039910577184884992879517482880/Screenshot-2024-10-28-at-2.42.51PM.png 2023’s improved sleep. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2039912596236364092611070508928/Screenshot-2024-10-28-at-2.44.39PM.png 2022’s sleep loss because of too much news. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2039915074740897836226425634688/Screenshot-2024-10-28-at-2.46.55PM.png (2/2) My afternoon and evening news reading declined in 2023.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2039923306987822354661734858624/Screenshot-2024-10-28-at-2.54.21PM.png (1/2) The number of days I read less than ten articles increased 70% in 2023. My 40+ days increased almost 40%, too. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2039923548234341350635250892672/Screenshot-2024-10-28-at-2.54.34PM.png (2/2) This chart shows the % of weekly reading in 3-hour intervals. Tuesday and Thursday mornings had the biggest jumps in 2023.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2039928361432592039226296745856/Screenshot-2024-10-28-at-2.58.54PM.png (1/2) 2022’s most read sources on 40+ article days: CNN, Fox, and the NY Post’s big declines likely helped my sleep. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2039928820572052033857036468096/Screenshot-2024-10-28-at-2.59.20PM.png (2/2) Articles read  by category on 40+ article days. My attention shifted away from sensationalism in 2023.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2039951498298239977578830217088/Screenshot-2024-10-28-at-3.19.49PM.png The winner-take-all effect: 2022’s total news articles read, Q1 - Q3, from most to least read source. The red dot = the Pareto value.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2039961657049328577944872009600/Screenshot-2024-10-28-at-3.29.00PM.png Reducing the winner-take-all effect, 2022 - 2024. The Pareto value has increased 81% in three years.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2039965694359076782238467342208/Screenshot-2024-10-28-at-3.32.38PM.png Articles ready by category, 2020 vs. 2024. I now read as much news from sources outside America as I do from sources in NY and DC.  https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2044431634220551037240461213568/Screenshot-2024-10-31-at-10.47.34AM.png (1/2) I lost 40+ minutes of sleep in 2022 if I read more than 20 articles after 6pm. That decline was mostly erased in 2023.