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Misleading reports and missing contexts
Reports about famous people and other newsworthy topics are either wrong or misleading about 60 percent of the time, often because they lack context. Wait a few days before forming an opinion on anything new, just in case context is missing. It usually is. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more
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How to assess whether to have a meeting or not
In the middle of your workday, you receive an email telling you that the office will have a meeting tomorrow before lunch. And then, you tell yourself that the meeting could have been just an email. At the back of your mind, you know that the meeting was just an excuse to have a free Read more
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It’s not all about you
When we were children, we look forward to life, thinking about the possibilities ahead of us. We believe we could be this or that. It’s all about what we could become. But now that I am in my early adulthood, I realized that life is not “all about you.” Maturity begins when you start to Read more
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Provocative fake news
The best way to get the sort of attention that drives viewership and profits today is with provocative fake news, which in my way of thinking includes not only factual inaccuracies but also biased coverage and emotion-based presentations. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America Read more
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Our goat Dolly likes mango leaves
When I was in college, grandma gave me a goat, which I then named Dolly (inspired by the first-ever cloned sheep). However, my mama did not want to have anything to do with raising goats at home. So we did not bring Dolly with us. And Dolly ended up becoming dinner, grandma told me. Then Read more
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Reflections on becoming
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