Gisel Sánchez

Are human beings fundamentally good and capable of change, healing, and growth? ...Or are we selfish individuals who must be kept in check?

Those who push a dark, divisive vision of humanity are highly organized in using social media to spread their stories. We must be just as strategic and collaborative in telling and amplifying stories that foste

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Today’s political landscape is shaped by forces investing heavily in spreading fear and division. Given that fear is a dominant force in our culture, it’s no surprise that it defines much of our politics.

f we want to build lasting movements that transform attitudes, behaviors, and culture (ABC strategy!), we need to organize around a shared goal.

The insight that changed everything for me came from neuroscience: all human beings have a fight-or-flight response. When we are in fear mode, our capacity to understand the perspectives of those different from us shuts down. Fear primes us for self-interest.

It’s common sense: if we sense danger, we instinctively take care of ourselves and our gro... See more

7. Consume conscientemente . En Silicon Valley, los jefazos te analizan según tu «tiempo de uso». Tu forma de rebelarte es usar una métrica más saludable: «tiempo bien invertido». Janira me propone algo que ha visto en Instagram: «1 hora de Twitter o TikTok al día, pero DEBE estar seguido de 15 minutos» de escribir lo que más te ha interesado o hec... See more

Aproximadamente el 75% de los enlaces de noticias compartidos en Facebook se comparten sin que los usuarios lean el contenido . Este acto de irresponsabilidad ciudadana se llama “compartir sin clics” porque los usuarios comparten sin presionar el enlace y sin leer.

Según el análisis, los usuarios conservadores mostraron tasas más altas de intercamb... See more

s Gary Marcus in The Birth of the Mind. “The reason animals can learn is that they can alter their nervous systems based on external experience. And the reason they can do that is that experience itself can modify the expression of genes. ”

the relational perspective, is based on a core belief best expressed by Karl Popper: “While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.” This basic belief leads people to assume that we all see things others miss, that disagreements are inevitable and valuable, that those disagreements will at ti... See more

cussed earlier, which came from the actions of the people who run its instances, with how the alternative commercial chat platform Discord handled similar problems. Discord is a closed-source platform that is centralised, not federated, although it devolves moderation down to its groups on the basis of some powerful shared moderation tools. It is h... See more