Greetings, friends. Oh my gosh, I have so much to say on so many different topics and topics

come up during the week that push my plan, frankly, to the next week. This keeps happening.

I would like to talk about information in our modern world. And what I'm about to say is a riff, a reflection that was initiated by the response

to last week's special episode on NATO, Russia, Ukraine.

I'm not going to talk about that episode, but I'm going to talk about the role of the different

bifurcations, the different lenses with which information is offered and information is

received.

And I think I'm not an expert on this topic.

I've got people in my network, Jonathan Haidt, Douglas

Rushkoff, Tristan Harris, and others who are. But I increasingly feel like this is one of our

greatest risks is how we receive information and where the information comes from and how we

respond to it. If we can't have conversations about we won't be able to deal with reality.

So here's a bit of an extemporaneous reflection on this topic. I've come up with 10 different dichotomies with respect to information.

The first is speaking versus writing. If you think about it, when you speak

in a podcast on television, in a presentation, that has a higher bar for novelty, sensationalism, attention-getting things than writing does.

Writing, you can take your time.

There are references.

It can be a little bit more boring and bland.

So the actual media itself in a Marshall McLuhan sort of way,

speaking, which many popular podcast hosts and other flashy video today,

is actually pulling us away from straight facts and references and education

because it hits our human evolved neurotransmitter buttons in a more aligned way than writing.

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