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Some Advice For My Friends Who Are Spending Every Day Frantically Posting Anti-Trump Links– And For Everyone Else Sharing Information On The Internet Too

Our human minds crave logical completeness. We want everything to fit into a tidy explanatory map. We also have a natural fascination with the sensational and controversial. We are drawn to reports of misdeeds or misfortune. We love to expose … Continue reading

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Podcast – Part 2 of Building a Strong Foundation For Testimony by Being a Critical Consumer of Information

As I mentioned last week, I recently recorded a 2-part presentation for the Rise Up Podcast produced by the Fair Mormon organization. The presentation is directed at youth and young adult members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, … Continue reading

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Podcast – Building a Strong Foundation For Testimony by Being a Critical Consumer of Information

  Even though I’ve been blogging about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for the last decade, I’ve never really gotten into podcasts and podcasting. But that is starting to change. Blogging is great, but it requires active consumption … Continue reading

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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Alliance of Big Data and Big Government? You Should Be.

Some time ago I wrote a bit about how the aggregate information that companies can gather from our behaviors can be used to uncover patterns and information that was previous impossible to imagine. Christopher Caldwell makes some very astute observations … Continue reading

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The Paradox of Representative Democracy

The paradox of representative democracy is that we elect representatives because we are collectively ignorant, but we can only evaluate and choose those representatives by the same ignorance. [Video: Undecided Voters] We elect representatives to get an in-depth understanding of … Continue reading

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