the YouTube diet

Maybe it's now safe to do so: I've stripped the news and commentary channels out of my YouTube feed, so I will no longer be constantly bombarded by rhetoric guaranteed to stress me out. The news will find me, anyway: I still read Instapundit, and YouTube's algorithm will keep feeding me videos from recently unsubscribed channels, and I'll undoubtedly succumb to temptation and watch some of those videos. But for 2025, I'll be doing my best to wean myself off most of that stuff. Instead, I'll try concentrating on science, food, humor, and other non-news-oriented, less stressful sources, mindful that some or most of those sources may still have a leftist tinge to them.

And while I can't guarantee I won't publish more meme dumps, I won't be pre-scheduling YouTube videos the way I did all this year, usually in two-week dumps that I would then supplement with "spontaneous" posts. So next year, you'll see more original content from me, like in the old days. A year of lazy blogging proved to be more stressful than it was worth. And spending my weekends scheduling two weeks' worth of posts every two weeks is just a time sink. I need more time for myself since I have so many projects that I've neglected. I'm kind of hoping I am temporarily out work as of the New Year; there's a lot to do.

I'm probably going to lose readers because of this change, but whatever.