Old Enough

 Old enough to realise some of the world events that I once follow, I have no way of influencing - such as that article on Hun Sen I once wrote about in Secondary School.

What is the value then of keeping up to date with world affairs? 

For something that is not within the sphere of influence, there is no point to be knowledgeable about them. 

Hence, there is a need to be ruthless about what to read in the papers? Analysis more than current affairs?

There is also a key question about how much TV to watch.  We treat it as an opioid: we may watch it during meal times, but when we lack energy for anything - it is so easy to turn to it to occupy's one times.

We can talk about how much we have learnt from each of those Vox channels, but again, they are interesting facts whereby I have no direct way of getting involved.  Youtube is really good only when you really have something in mind to learn and not again, random learning.

Create, not consume. Live voraciously.