6. Keep perspective on how information reaches you
The most important insight: news isn't neutral.
Every headline, article, and social post has been filtered through someone else's agenda.
Ask yourself: "Who benefits from me believing this?"
6. Keep perspective on how information reaches you The most important insight: news isn't neutral. Every headline, article, and social post has been filtered through someone else's agenda. Ask yourself: "Who benefits from me believing this?"
Hamish McKenzie: On social media, posers are often given the most status points, and so we’re left with a misleading idea of authority; it seems the people who are loudest in their claims to be experts — the ones we hear from most on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube — are the ones to be most wary of. When self-proclaimed experts are ultimately reveal... See more
Youyang Gu • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future

Beware the Curators
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Like a raging river, information courses along faster than ever before.The maelstrom will never cease. In fact, her gales will blow harder, her raindrops grow fatter with the bits and bytes that make up our digital deluge.We have too few hours to comb through too much information. Not to mention, it takes real, hard, honest work to separate the whe... See more
Tom White • Curation as a Cure
“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with 2 watches is never sure.”
Ancient societies followed a single narrative. Modern societies are cacophonies of competing narratives. Without trust, more data doesn’t make us more informed but more confused.
Ancient societies followed a single narrative. Modern societies are cacophonies of competing narratives. Without trust, more data doesn’t make us more informed but more confused.