Comment by oskarth

While I agree with the sentiment, Rolf Dobelli himself is a plagiarist. This whole reasoning is basically stolen from Nassim Taleb.

http://fooledbyrandomness.com/dobelli.htm

http://blog.chabris.com/2013/09/similarities-between-rolf-do...

EDIT: For another take on not reading the news, see http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews