How to improve social media - Part I
Each blind man has a grip on one aspect of reality, but none of them holds the whole truth. Each man’s picture of the elephant is constrained by the boundaries of his own experience.
Dave Gray • Liminal Thinking
What is truth to one may be disaster to another. I do not see life through your eyes, nor you through mine.
Farnam Street • Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life
The intent of this piece is not to deride public opinion; the goal of this piece is instead to figure out the pros and cons of each of the typical four sources of information (public opinion, experts, personal networks, intuition) one uses to make decisions, in order to create repeatable processes of organizing information that combine the best of ... See more
Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance
The Single Perspective Instinct We find simple ideas very attractive. We enjoy that moment of insight, we enjoy feeling we really understand or know something. And it is easy to take off down a slippery slope, from one attention-grabbing simple idea to a feeling that this idea beautifully explains, or is the beautiful solution for, lots of other th... See more
Hans Rosling • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
find out what other people are thinking and feeling. “The point is, however, that it’s usually not in our best interest to believe that our interpretation is ‘reality.’ How much sense does this make?”
Bruce D. Schneider • Energy Leadership
There is an objective reality, but none of us can perceive it in totality without doing a little work. Is it any wonder we make suboptimal decisions? — Sidebar: Perspective-taking in psychology
Shane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
confirmation bias is often the difference between sounding smart and being right. And sometimes something much, much worse.