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“Tell me with whom you consort and I will tell you who you are; if I know how you spend your time, then I know what might become of you.”
― Goethe
I've stopped reading the news. Again. 2017 was the first time, after moving to San Francisco. The cadence of the news cycle on Pacific Standard Time was anxiety-inducing: we'd go to…