Any recommendations for how I can improve my world view and knowledge of past and current affairs? The goal is for me to be well versed in various topics so I can lead more interesting conversations

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Read. News. Books. All that jazz.

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The Economist

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The Economist has an app called Espresso that has 5-10 world event blurbs each day, each story is only 5-10 sentences. Goal is you can read it during your morning coffee/shit. Great for staying up on current world politics and economics without taking too much time.

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"Past affairs" = history

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The skimm !

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^ I second the Skimm suggestion - I get it every morning. Foreign Policy also does an email digest each morning. If you want to brush up on history, try the Hardcore History podcasts - they're so good!! My favorite was probably the series on the Mongols

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Agree with A1. I would also highly recommend Foreign Affairs in addition to subscribing to Ian Bremmer's podcasts/video updates. Additionally, the Council on Foreign Relations features wonderful and informative podcasts that you can listen to on the way to work. I swear by the world this week.

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WashPo, NYT, WSJ, FT, Reuters, Bloomberg, Economist. Try some of these out, then eventually subscribe to a few that you like and just read them on a daily basis. Op-Ed pieces are always good too.

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Sign up for news emails like bit of news or skimmed. And even by browsing through the titles every morning you can at least pick up the references when people talk a out stuff.

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WSJ. That's it. Will be boring at first but you'll come to love it.

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I signed up for two e-newsletters: Skimm and Morning Brew. Skimm keeps me up to date on politics and world news, and the Brew updates me with anything business related.

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Binge watch 'the office'

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Podcasts!!!! Spotify has so many on interesting tidbits, politics and current affairs, etc. some fun ones are stuff you didn't learn in history class, sawbones, pod save America

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Join the Army, 18X contact.

Thanks a lot, everyone! Very helpful

NYT also has a morning briefing and evening briefing newsletter. Great overview.

just go to cnn and usa news and read the top 5 news for today. should get your day started

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