How to improve social media - Part I
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 big idea: do we all experience the world in the same way?
theguardian.com
More often than not, there are no right answers, just different perspectives. The more perspectives we can learn to see, the greater our understanding becomes. Our filter can begin to more accurately approach what truly is, rather than a narrow sliver interpreted through our bias.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Reality can only be understood sensibly by adopting the opposite messages to Twitter. The world is complex and requires steady focus to be understood; it needs to be thought about and comprehended slowly; and most important truths will be unpopular when they are first articulated.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
try to take both perspectives—the worm’s-eye view as well as the bird’s-eye view. They will usually show you something different, and they will sometimes pose a puzzle: How could both views be true? That should be the beginning of an investigation. Sometimes the statistics will be misleading, sometimes it will be our own eyes that deceive us, and s
... See moreTim Harford • The Data Detective
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
The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little. We