LEAN on Complexity & Ecology Research

What is LEAN?

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Low Engagement AI News

LEAN stands for Low Engagement AI News. It is a daily morning email digest that aggregates articles from professional news sources, summarizes them using AI, and delivers them in calm, neutral language — stripped of sensationalism, urgency bait, and emotional provocation.

The goal is simple: stay informed without getting pulled in.

How It Works

Each edition is built automatically by an AI pipeline:

Articles are pulled from curated RSS feeds produced by professional journalists
Duplicate and low-significance stories are filtered out
Each remaining article is summarized and rewritten in calm, neutral language
The digest is assembled and delivered by email every morning

The output follows strict editorial rules: no ALL CAPS, no exclamation marks, no sensational framing. The writing is designed to inform, not to provoke.

Project Philosophy

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LEAN Philosophy

Stay informed without getting engaged.

LEAN — Low Engagement AI News — is a news feed produced by AI, built to summarize the news while removing emotional engagement and clutter. By doing so, it allows the reader to feel a sense of clarity without risking the doom-scrolling cycle.

The Engagement Economy

The concept of the attention economy was first articulated by Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon in 1971, who observed that a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention — what was then a theoretical insight has since become a deliberate business model. Platforms offer “free” services but generate revenue by selling targeted advertising, with algorithms feeding users whatever content maximizes time spent and clicks. As researchers have noted, the most effective content for this purpose tends to be sensational, divisive, or outrage-inducing, because emotional responses are what keep us clicking and sharing.

Mailing List

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Receive one edition every morning — no sensationalism, no infinite scroll, no emotional bait. Just the news, summarized and delivered.

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Repository

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Open Source

If you are interested in understanding how the system works, or want to run your own LEAN agent with a personalized configuration — focusing on a different country, language, or subject — the full source code is available on GitHub.

View the LEAN repository on GitHub

What the Code Does

The pipeline runs automatically each morning and covers five stages:

Fetch — pull articles from a curated list of RSS feeds
Deduplicate — merge stories that share repeated keywords
Filter — score articles by relevance and significance, drop low-signal items
Summarize — rewrite each article using an AI model under strict editorial constraints
Deliver — assemble and send the final HTML digest by email

Stack

Language: Python
AI model: Anthropic (Claude)
Delivery: Buttondown
Scheduling: daily cron job

Run Your Own

The system is designed to be configurable. You can point it at different RSS feeds, adjust the filtering rules, and run it on any topic or region — not just Israel. Instructions for setup are in the repository README.