Select your sources.

Read the room like an observer from the balcony.

Absolutely don’t watch TV (I don’t own a TV nor a cable subscription since 2014)

It’s a crazy world out there and how do you keep yourself updated? I mean two years of a pandemic, Harry Styles, a war, the Johnny Depp trial, the IPCC reports, Wordle, Succession …

I READ.

I selectively choose - a synonym for a process of elimination that is as refined as a bottle of Tignanello.

I hand write notes everywhere and use different colors (never black).

I don’t listen to voice messages longer than 30 seconds after which they become monologues. Last time I listened to a voice message was in the machine, I lived in Milan, circa 1993.

I am analog and my memory is selective, as in “I don’t listen” type of selective, as my daughter would say. Thing is, if it doesn’t stimulate any sensorial or visual interest, I move on and leave space for something … more interesting, that is.

When I am 100% invested in one news, topic, story I write notes, text message “For me” to remember to research by the end of the day and you’ll hear me talking about it at nauseam. Until the next one.

Here’s how it goes on an usual day:

BREAKFAST is for NEWSand coffee

• world news - first Zelensky and last Zelensky, in between international, national, politics, social, very little local unless it’s something socially relevant like reproductive rights, homelessness and voter suppression.

• fashion news - Italy (kill me!), international and national.

LUNCH is for INSTAGRAM while in the parking lot

Abandon all hope ye who enter here. We pop culture, gossip, snoop, scoop, stalk, DM, chat, comment and casually post something.

DINNER is for RESEARCH and Johnny Depp trial

• this is a free-for-all, it could go from the NYT Cooking to reading in between the lines of the latest greenwashing inventions of the fashion industry, or researching for an assignment because even if I graduated from my Masters program, I do love perfecting, rewriting, exchanging notes.

Is this easy?

NO

Is it overwhelming?

FOR SURE

Why do I do it?

Because I had to find an antidote that would prevent me from being bombarded by news at rapid fire, like fast fashion or fast food.