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First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge
First-principles thinking is one of the best ways to reverse-engineer complicated problems and unleash creative possibility.
Sometimes called “reasoning from first principles,” the idea is to break down complicated problems into basic elements and then reassemble them from the ground up. It’s one of the best ways to learn to think for yourself, unlock your creative potential, and move from linear to non-linear results.
Being Critical is Not Thinking Critically
The presentation of the TIDAL Approach to Decision Making. The TIDAL approach is designed to mitigate the perceptual limitations caused by the way our brain works. Selective perception, confirmation bias, motivated reasoning, and cultural/linguistic biases are real things that affect our decision-making.
The Social Dilemma Transcript – Main Arguments
Using The Social Dilemma Transcript this lesson tries to understand the influences Social Media has on the community and what should we do about it. Updated March 27, 2023
History of Health Misinformation
This lesson on the History of Health Misinformation provides evidence that Health Misinformation has been with us from our beginning.
Evidence of Trump’s Christian Support
This lesson provides Evidence of Trump’s Christian Support. It’s a facegroup that makes it clear that it supports Trump, almost like Jesus himself.
Critical Thinking Advice in the Bible
This lesson offers the Critical Thinking Advice in the Bible as a way to help bridge the gap between Scriptures and Logic.
5 Media Literacy Questions
This lesson details the 5 Media Literacy Questions we need to ask every time we consume information to ensure the most learn from it. Updated April 2023
Use Media Literacy to Understand a Fox News Story about Obama
This lesson on Using Media Literacy to Understand a Fox News Story about the Obama’s will help us better perceive information from Fox News.
Atlantis Decision Making Method
How to Make Better Decisions Better Decisions come better information, and better information comes from better communication. Ultimately all decisions are information dependent. https://www.youtube.com/embed/GiPe1OiKQuk Some of your decisions will be so routine that...
Facebook Didn’t Seem To Care I Was Being Sexually Harassed Until I Decided To Write About It | HuffPost
While his genius may be largely uncontested, Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of Facebook is badly adrift from reality. He paints the social media behemoth he founded in 2004 as a tool “to bring the world closer together,” but in many ways, it has become an indispensable...
Abbreviated pundit roundup: Trump’s history of lying, Conway’s defensiveness and more
On the topic of Kellyanne Conway’s reaction to CNN’s question about her husband’s anti-Trump tweets, Michael Tomasky calls her a “conservative snowflake”: [C]ome on. It was a totally reasonable and legitimate question, as Bash told my colleague Matt Wilstein Monday ....
The Misinformation Effect
The Misinformation Effect and False Memories The misinformation effect refers to the tendency for post-event information to interfere with the memory of the original event. Researchers have shown that the introduction of even relatively subtle information following an...
Conservative’s Defense of Amy Coney Barrett’s Religion
Conservative's Defense of Amy Coney Barrett's Religion The post below provides evidence of selective perception. Specifically, the evidence of Selective Perception is the Conservative's defense of Amy Coney Barrett's religion. GOP Defends Amy Coney Barrett’s...
History of the Scientific Method
History of the Scientific Method The Dark Ages, (500 to 1100) were characterized by a general erosion of civilization. Knowledge from the ancient Romans survived in only a few monasteries, cathedrals, and palace schools. While knowledge from ancient Greece...
Fake News and the First Amendment
We Already Have a Solution to Fake News: It’s Called the First Amendment Oct 9, 2017 13 min read Fake news isn’t suddenly ruining America, but putting government in charge of deciding what news is fake will. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016...
Boolean Logic
This lesson provides a high-level look at Boolean Logic and how it can apply to help us improve our communication and thus improve our life.
Shannon Entropy Explained
This lesson, Shannon Entropy Explained, is a good explanation of what Entropy is and why it is important. It Helps build the best message.
Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning
Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning
Shannon Entropy and Information Gain
Heritage Foundation Take on Fake News
We Already Have a Solution to Fake News: It’s Called the First Amendment< Oct 9, 2017 13 min read Mr. Stepman is a contributor to The Daily Signal, the multi-media news outlet of The Heritage Foundation. Mr. Stepman wrote In the wake of President Donald Trump’s...
How to Make Decisions – Old
Decision MakingHow to Make Better Decisions Better Decisions come better information, and better information comes from better communication. Ultimately all decisions are information dependent. Some of your decisions will be so routine that you make them without...
Johann Gutenberg
Johann Gutenberg< Movable Type Printing Press The printing press, invented by German goldsmith Johann Gutenberg in 1448, has been called one of the most important inventions in the history of humankind. For the first time, the device made it possible for the common...
A Smart Recommender System
A Smart Recommender Based on Hybrid Learning Methods for Personal Well-Being Services Rayan M. Nouh, Hyun-Ho Lee, Won-Jin Lee, and Jae-Dong Lee* Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer This article has been cited by other articles...
Mediated Democracy – The Future of Political Agency
Mediated Democracy - The Future of Political Agency The notion of ‘political agency’ draws attention at the (media) practices through which social actors re- produce, reorganise and challenge politics. At the same time, it poses questions about the structures, econom-...
Information Technology and Social Change
Information Technology and Social Change Contents INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHANGE 1. THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES 2. SOCIETY IN THE SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE THE DYNAMIC STATE OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS THE EVOLUTION OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS: THE CASE OF...
The Benefits of Aggregated Knowledge
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History of Information Technologies
History of Information Technologies In an iBook I wrote, “The 5 Ages of Information,” I break information into 5 distinct ages. In the iBook I lay out a timeline for the changes. It is critical to note the acceleration of changes over history. The first...
How you can protect yourself from misinformation
Protect yourself from misinformation? Throughout history, many smart people have fallen for misinformation. It is often hard to protect yourself from misinformation. As a result, few actually try. However, while it is often hard to protect yourself from...
Shannon Entropy and Information Gain
Deep Learning – The Next Big Educational Thing
The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning Abstract Deep learning is driving rapid innovations in artificial intelligence and influencing massive disruptions across all industries. This is the beginning of my effort to see if Deep Learning will...
Paul & Elder Critical Thinking Framework
The Paul Elder Critical thinking Framework is another attempt to help us process information better by providing structure to our thinking. Updated March 2, 2023
2 Elements of Reasoning Well
Reasoning Well is Critical for Effective Decision Making There is much truth to the old saying that life is just one decision after another. That’s why decision-making is one of life’s major preoccupations. "Reasoning well" is an essential ingredient in...
Charlie Munger Teaches Critical Thinking Skills
Who is Charlie Munger? Wit and Wisdom From The World’s Most Irreverent Billionaire Charlie Munger is one of the great minds of the 20th century. Below is an attempt to capture that wisdom in one shareable place. “Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you...
Critical Thinking
Being Critical, Not Thinking Critically Too often in practice, people equate critical thinking with merely being skeptical of whatever they hear. Or they will interpret it to mean that, when confronted with someone who says something that they disagree with,...
Review: Stanford Media Literacy Study
Most Students Don’t Know When News Is Fake. So a Review of the Stanford Media Literacy Study Finds Teens absorb social media news without considering the source; parents can teach research skills and skepticism Preteens and teens may appear dazzlingly fluent, flitting...
4 Simple Media Literacy Rules
4 Simple Media Literacy Rules I just heard the news: "The top 20 fake stories received more “shares, reactions, and comments” than the 20 top real news stories in the final months of the presidential campaign." It seems fake news is more appealing and, apparently,...
Media Literacy Challenges
Media Literacy Challenges Did media literacy backfire? Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of propaganda and fake news during this year’s election cycle, many progressives are calling for an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Others are...
How To Improve Media Literacy
Updated March 1, 2023 This Lesson is focused on finding the best ways to promote and support media literacy in the community. Our focus is on helping everyone, young and old, to develop critical thinking and media production skills needed to live fully in the 21st...
How to Translate Conservative Speak
In order to process all the information available, we need to know how to translate conservative speak. In this case we can use GOP Rep Steve King. Steve was on CNN yesterday to explain to us all that Vladimir Putin is no real danger to free speech because, hey, Garry...
Communication Skills to Improve Decision Making
The Most Important Communication Skills Needed to Improve your Decision Making And Information Gathering. Becoming a great communicator – what does it mean and what does it take? Communication Styles De-Coded: How to identify and understand the different communication...
Finding the Information Sweet Spot in Any Situation
Good Information is the Foundation of Good Decision Making Some decisions we make are life-changing, like my decision to volunteer for the Army during the Viet Nam war. Other decisions are not life changing at all, as my decision this morning to buy an extra onion...
How to Encourage Responsible and Meaningful Engagement in Public Discourse
I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of -CLARENCE D ARROW To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know. That is true knowledge. -HENRY DAVID THOREAU We have met the enemy and he is us. -WALT KELLY'S "PoGo"...
Claud Shannon's Problem Solving Algorithm: Paint the Big Picture First, Then Fill In the Details
I consider Claude Shannon one of my most important influences. Along with Alan Turing and F. A. Hayek. So, when I came across a post about Shannon's Problem Solving Algorithm, I had to read it. The post is Claude Shannon: How a Genius Solves Problems. In the post...
Claud Shannon’s Problem Solving Algorithm: Paint the Big Picture First, Then Fill In the Details
I consider Claude Shannon one of my most important influences. Along with Alan Turing and F. A. Hayek. So, when I came across a post about Shannon's Problem Solving Algorithm, I had to read it. The post is Claude Shannon: How a Genius Solves Problems. In the post...
Trump Twitter Taxonomy: How Trump is using Twitter to manipulate the country
President Trump on Twitter behavior: ‘I’m a very stable genius’ When asked during a NATO press conference if President Trump will tweet differently once departing on Air Force One, the president said he will not because he is a "stable genius." President Donald...
Talking to Conservatives
This is how we process information today. Dan Adams+1 Obama, the Democrats and Trump Derangement Syndrome Liberals are completely f***ed up in the head. Frank Roberts Brad, Clearly you miss the point of Fascism. Jews can be just as Fascistic as non-Jews. Trump...
My Definition of Fake News
On Sunday Dec. 4, 2016, Edgar Welch, 28, fired a real gun inside a real Washington, D.C., pizzeria filled with real people. When The New York Times asked Welch what he thought when he realized there were no child slaves inside the restaurant, as one fake news story...
Applying Alan Turing’s Universal Computing Machine to Media Literacy
I think it is possible to create a "Universal Media Literacy Machine" in the same way Alan Turing created a "Universal Computing Machine." Alan Turning, the fundamentally complicated and brilliant mathematician, suggested, in his groundbreaking 1936 paper, that a...
Applying Alan Turing's Universal Computing Machine to Media Literacy
I think it is possible to create a "Universal Media Literacy Machine" in the same way Alan Turing created a "Universal Computing Machine." Alan Turning, the fundamentally complicated and brilliant mathematician, suggested, in his groundbreaking 1936 paper, that a...
Media literacy Is Critical For Reasoned Discussion
Without Media Literacy Our Future is Bleak. And without Media Literacy we cannot have any chance for reasoned discussion. “At present, we worry that democracy is threatened by the ease at which disinformation about civic issues is allowed to spread and flourish. … If...
Why the Confederate flag started trending after the Charleston shooting – BBC News
Why the Confederate flag started trending after the Charleston shooting It was reported later that suspect Dylann Roof drove a car with Confederate flag licence plates. In the wake of the mass shooting in South Carolina, the image of the Confederate flag started...
5 Things We Should Do in 2016 to Make Our Community Better!
There are 5 things we should do in 2016 to make our community better! We should listen more and preach less. We should build more opportunities to learn from each other,. We should tap into our seniors to provide them an opportunity to be more productive. We should...
5 Ways Technology Can and Should Be used to Improve Education
Here are 5 ways Technology Can and Should be used to improve education. Technology has always been a powerful tool in learning. The earliest learning technology, writing, transformed learning from just the memorization of stories told by a few near-by elders, to the...
Micro-Credentials! The 21st Century Educational Goal!
Prior to the domestication of the electron, we had to go to "bricks and mortar" buildings and campuses to learn. But, today, you don't have to leave your desk to have virtually unlimited learning options available to you. Unfortunately, our existing industrialized...
Solution Aversion – Why people believe what they believe
The Learning Community is always interested in what causes some to refuse to learn. A recent study on this subject by Troy Campbell and Aaron Kay of Duke University adds an intriguing new idea to the mix: “solution aversion.” Motivated Reasoning is something the...
Net Neutrality is the Perfect Vehicle to Explore the Power of a Learning Community
Because of its technical nature Net Neutrality is perfect for a Learning Community. Net Neutrality encompasses: Technical - What is the Optimal Internet Architecture Economic - What should be the drivers of the Telecommunications Industry Political - What role does...
We need to Seek Understanding First in our efforts in finding Common Ground rather than fight
Bill Maher asked this question, "Do you think social media made us bigger assholes, or we were bigger assholes and it just exposed us as being that?" Maher posed the question to Nerdist Industries CEO, and host of @Midnight on Comedy Central, Chris Hardwick, after...
The Difficulty to Building Consensus is on clear display with Religion on Wikipedia. But there are solutions. Like Separating Facts and Conclusions, and transparency to the source.
A interesting post from the Religion New Service (RNS) about the "Edit Wars" on the Religious Pages of Wikipedia clearly demonstrate the difficulty to Building Consensus. But, there is a solution. Clearly identify what are facts and what are conclusions. Then...
A Creationist Cartoon Offers an Opportunity for the Learning Community to Understand Confirmation Bias
Someone, most probably a Creationist, at the Henry Grady High School in Atlanta tried to use a cartoon in a freshman biology class that showed evolution, humanism, homosexuality, pornography, racism, euthanasia, divorce and abortion as the work of Satan and at war...
Story about “Unemployment” Numbers is Opportunity to Find “Actionable” Information
Here is an email I got this morning: Wednesday's ADP number suggested a sub-200K reading for today's May BLS jobs report. That would be a significant disappointment after April's robust 288K. But ADP is far from a flawless indicator. So estimates for today's number...
Noise is the Fundamental Obstacle to Learning
Let me go on record and acknowledge that I truly understand that while getting good enough information for learning is fairly easy, getting the “BEST” information for learning is not so easy. The reason is "Noise." There are a number of environmental and biological...
How do you determine if the Story about the Galileo is a “Myth” or not?
I came across the following at http://www.bede.org.uk/sciencehistory.htm written by James Hannam in 2002: The greatest of the secular myths is Galileo Galilei as a martyr for science. The epic battle between the forces of reason and truth and the dark superstitions of...
Victor Hugo – An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted
The star possesses no anger; the dawn bears no malice. Light issatisfied in being light. Light is everything; the human race has no other love. France knows herself beloved because she is good, and...