Thank you for this sound reminder! Long live discernment, patience, and trust in our bodies and brain natural ability to tell us what’s true. I love the car talk phrase “kick the tires” meaning: see if something holds up past the optical impression.
has anyone recieved the email from circle? im so looking forward to it, but its not popping up. ive been searching @circle.com - if any of yall have gotten it, id appreciate if you would share the subject line or full email address with me. thank you!
Hi there! I'm so sorry the email hasn't popped up yet - Circle finished sending the last of the invitations over the weekend, so they all should have gone out by now. I'll DM you so we can figure this out :-)
Full stop: My big takeaway after reading this is just, let's make it okay to wait again. Remember having to pause for commercials, or sit there while dial-up screeched and loaded, or get up and flip a change out VHS tapes for the next part of Titanic? lol. Didn't train judgment the same way your accuracy prompt does, but it kept the muscle of pausing alive, and that feels mostly gone now.
The best thing we can do for ourselves and for everyone around us is slow down and think about it, wait, and then judge. Very well written piece, Hana, as always! Loved this one.
Well put and au courant thoughts on something that's been on my mind way too much: Speed and frequency, floods of information and, sorry, rapid assembly of mobs. The piece brings to mind Craig Newmark's "Take 9" campaign. He's been asking people to take at least nine seconds before clicking on links. I think in the beginning this was to add some drag on the high speed attraction | impression | judgement phenomenon. His campaign is now mostly about helping people not fall into actual scams. Another interesting coincidental contribution to reducing the rapid uptake of mob or group judgements, scams, and group think is Mike Godwin's current project, "Godwin's Ethic". (the title seems a foil to his (unintentially univesal) "law". Worth a look. And, he's here on Substack: https://mikegodwin.substack.com/p/from-a-law-to-an-ethic
(sorry if these have already been cited - I'm just dropping in off the 'stack algo cue)
Slowing down to consider the source and finding other reliable sources to validate facts are two of the critical evaluation skills I learned as an intel officer 40 years ago. Back then, none of those practices seemed unique or unusual but as you rightly point out, social media has changed how information is delivered in life-changing ways. Thank you for an excellent briefing.
Thank you for this well-written, well-thought out piece, Catherine. I appreciate how you open it with relevant history. How you educate us as we read along. How I found myself nodding in agreement...had to slow myself down before restacking and reposting! 😁
A powerful insight that is uniquely human can change the world. Brilliant!
Thank you for this sound reminder! Long live discernment, patience, and trust in our bodies and brain natural ability to tell us what’s true. I love the car talk phrase “kick the tires” meaning: see if something holds up past the optical impression.
has anyone recieved the email from circle? im so looking forward to it, but its not popping up. ive been searching @circle.com - if any of yall have gotten it, id appreciate if you would share the subject line or full email address with me. thank you!
also, very interesting article, once again.
Hi there! I'm so sorry the email hasn't popped up yet - Circle finished sending the last of the invitations over the weekend, so they all should have gone out by now. I'll DM you so we can figure this out :-)
Full stop: My big takeaway after reading this is just, let's make it okay to wait again. Remember having to pause for commercials, or sit there while dial-up screeched and loaded, or get up and flip a change out VHS tapes for the next part of Titanic? lol. Didn't train judgment the same way your accuracy prompt does, but it kept the muscle of pausing alive, and that feels mostly gone now.
The best thing we can do for ourselves and for everyone around us is slow down and think about it, wait, and then judge. Very well written piece, Hana, as always! Loved this one.
Well put and au courant thoughts on something that's been on my mind way too much: Speed and frequency, floods of information and, sorry, rapid assembly of mobs. The piece brings to mind Craig Newmark's "Take 9" campaign. He's been asking people to take at least nine seconds before clicking on links. I think in the beginning this was to add some drag on the high speed attraction | impression | judgement phenomenon. His campaign is now mostly about helping people not fall into actual scams. Another interesting coincidental contribution to reducing the rapid uptake of mob or group judgements, scams, and group think is Mike Godwin's current project, "Godwin's Ethic". (the title seems a foil to his (unintentially univesal) "law". Worth a look. And, he's here on Substack: https://mikegodwin.substack.com/p/from-a-law-to-an-ethic
(sorry if these have already been cited - I'm just dropping in off the 'stack algo cue)
Very thought-provoking. Thank you for sharing.
Very informative and useful! Liked/restacked/shared with some folks who aren't on the platform. Thanks!
Slowing down to consider the source and finding other reliable sources to validate facts are two of the critical evaluation skills I learned as an intel officer 40 years ago. Back then, none of those practices seemed unique or unusual but as you rightly point out, social media has changed how information is delivered in life-changing ways. Thank you for an excellent briefing.
Or just put the device down, open the door, go outside and talk to a real person?
Thank you!
Thank you for this well-written, well-thought out piece, Catherine. I appreciate how you open it with relevant history. How you educate us as we read along. How I found myself nodding in agreement...had to slow myself down before restacking and reposting! 😁
When you discuss research, it would be nice if you included a citation, and even nicer if you included a link to the paper
All papers and resources are hyperlinked throughout the article.
Is there a way to force a browser to interrupt a feed by inserting a page between each item? Make one "turn" a page to move on.
Some browsers have a Reading mode. Another possibility is to print to PDF, then read that.
It’s exhausting.