[zachware]

What this points to is the concept of distilled vs undistilled information. When X happens it often takes a short or long period of time for X to appear in context of the thing that's actually newsworthy.

That GE stock is down 1% at 2pm isn't useful unless you are an professional active trader. But the stock's trend line and the company's financials could, over a few days, point to a story you can take action on.

We didn't evolve to receive this level of information flow. Our brains think it's all relevant.

My strategy is to read a summary of sorts on Sundays, a paper copy of The Economist. It's not all encompassing and sometimes has a bit of bias, but it's the only weekly I've found that comprehensively sums up the stream of events that happened rather that generally line up in some sort of context. I've found that useful.