ll74
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This thread means much more than I can put into words and likely will evolve over time.
With the internet, we all have information. I know about the civil rights movement. I know about the first super bowl. I know about the invention of the telephone.
I purposely used a variety of impactful things with differing approaches.
A few things that I consistently think about :
1. People (including myself) react to headlines.
- if you were to tell me about an hour of your life, could you do so in five to ten words? Would you want to?
2. The speed of reaction to events is astonishing these days. Earthquakes in Venezuela happened within a week and we've already moved on to something else.
3. The expectation of remediation speed is unrealistic. We used to take time and think.. we don't anymore.
Like I said...this thread is difficult to fully flesh out. But the bottom line is this:
Information is not knowledge. Knowing about something doesn't mean you know something. You should find data and think about data and come to a conclusion about data. And that's your conclusion based on your first pass. And then do a second pass. And a third pass.
And I'm not suggesting that I do this on every topic or every time or that I'm not guilty of taking a shortcut or two or three.
But I'm more apt to question other people when they give me their final conclusion within an hour of having.a small amount of information....and that includes myself.
With the internet, we all have information. I know about the civil rights movement. I know about the first super bowl. I know about the invention of the telephone.
I purposely used a variety of impactful things with differing approaches.
A few things that I consistently think about :
1. People (including myself) react to headlines.
- if you were to tell me about an hour of your life, could you do so in five to ten words? Would you want to?
2. The speed of reaction to events is astonishing these days. Earthquakes in Venezuela happened within a week and we've already moved on to something else.
3. The expectation of remediation speed is unrealistic. We used to take time and think.. we don't anymore.
Like I said...this thread is difficult to fully flesh out. But the bottom line is this:
Information is not knowledge. Knowing about something doesn't mean you know something. You should find data and think about data and come to a conclusion about data. And that's your conclusion based on your first pass. And then do a second pass. And a third pass.
And I'm not suggesting that I do this on every topic or every time or that I'm not guilty of taking a shortcut or two or three.
But I'm more apt to question other people when they give me their final conclusion within an hour of having.a small amount of information....and that includes myself.
