Different people need different messages around this.

For years, I read many online newspapers a day, as well as journalism trade publications. I also did a little low-key activism, during an earlier tech industry gold rush, when caring was less fashionable.

Today, I read almost zero news, and have set up filters on social media to block most references to the awful.

I have a pretty good idea about some very bad dynamics going on, but I can't do anything about them.

Were I to dwell on the very bad news, throughout each day, I wouldn't be able to do any small bits of good. Such as by contributing to a non-evil startup. Or trying to get sufficient resources that I can afford to share more.

Some people need to be told to take a step back, before they're destroyed by empathy and futile problem-solving. Other people need to be told to care more, or to be less self-centered. Other people need to be told not to be so incredibly awful, that they are ruining everything for everyone else.

I decided I'm in the first group, and hope to shift into an overly-comfortable second group, then fine-tune to somewhere between the two.