For a long time, the news ran my day more than I'd like to admit. I'd catch one alarming headline in the morning, and there went the next few hours… turning it over, worrying about something I couldn't do anything about in that moment.
I'm not trying to look away. Bad things happen in the world and I want to know about them. But I've learned I have to be careful about when I let them in. On a good day I can set aside time for the hard stuff, when I know it won't quietly derail everything after it. There was just never a real way to do that.
Most outlets hand everyone the same firehose. None of them let me sort the news around my own life. I want to know when there's a war. I don't need the sensationalized version of it. And a new medical breakthrough? Tell me everything.
Nothing out there could do this. So I built it. That's all Quieted really is: your news, on your terms, at the temperature you set.

Jenae Spry, Founder of Quieted
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