[upstill]

While this is more tactical than strategic, I've saved untold thousands of reading hours by firmly avoiding three kinds of stories: 1) predictions of the future (which are almost always wrong, especially when proffered by experts), 2) opinionated evaluations (especially by experts), which only rarely offer any insight, and 3) anything else that will expire in a week or a month. Almost everything about an upcoming election will be worthless very soon; this is a surprisingly broad category.

Notice that these three categories are all interesting, but with very low information value. You can train yourself to detect a high interest/information ratio and turn away when it goes off.

[neillimaye]

Good call. What are some headlines that scream these categories?