Culture
we often prefer the ease of hanging on to old views over the difficulty of grappling with new ones. Yet there are also deeper forces behind our resistance to rethinking. Questioning ourselves makes the world more unpredictable. It requires us to admit that the facts may have changed, that what was once right may now be wrong. Reconsidering somethin... See more
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
When I look around, I see evidence of this toggle switch everywhere. Notice how easily people who are normally compassionate drop that compassion when thinking and talking about members of a political party they hate—the “Them” political party? How these people are all about forgiveness with people they see as part of “Us” but are fine with permane... See more
Tim Urban • A Game of Giants — Wait but Why
We’re definitely in a big reordering of what’s in-group and out-group. There’s a funny energy where many powerful people are revealing themselves to have had no actual convictions in the past, or simply that their convictions just mirror whatever’s convenient for their power and self-interest. And you know, we’re in a moment where that’s being cele
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