# “If code scripts machines, media scripts human beings.” - @balajis

By [Rustyblob](https://paragraph.com/@rustyblob) · 2022-01-18

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What are Information diets? 📚

Sugar leads to diabetes of the body

The internet, with its limitless and open access to media, leads to diabetes of the brain

Health monitors can help manage our food diet

We need something similar to monitor our information diet

A thumb rule -

If the content leads to passive consumption, the information quality is low

If the content leads to pausing & rewinding, the information quality is high

New age, New addictions, New rules 📐

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*Originally published on [Rustyblob](https://paragraph.com/@rustyblob/if-code-scripts-machines-media-scripts-human-beings-balajis)*