Ugh. I hate these pseudo intellectual puff pieces. What ends up happening is that this is used by all sides to reinforce their own existing thinking patterns, n

Ugh. I hate these pseudo intellectual puff pieces. What ends up happening is that this is used by all sides to reinforce their own existing thinking patterns, not to challenge existing ones. There are no actual actionable takeaways from reading this. As the article says, we have an abundance of information. This, coupled with bad actors who intentionally inject misleading, false, and emotionally charged information into our incoming data stream, means our lizard brains are overloaded and basically do the easiest thing possible: revert to emotion and agree with information that confirms our already held biases. The only thing that has been helpful to me is two fold: one, to revisit technological triumphs of previous eras. I’m listening to 13 minutes to the moon with my kids. It brings me to tears the focus, determination, and pure dedication to science required to pull off such engineering feats. Second, I push myself to read books. Mostly books about espionage because I find them both entertaining and I like to think it helps me make sense of the noise today. Currently I’m reading Ben Macintyres books - highly recommended.