So much highbrow media is oriented around the question of "how should the sort of person who reads this publication think, feel and behave?"
Whereas I'm old-fashioned I guess and I just want information, with the complexities not necessarily resolved into a neat, tidy package.
if you had $86,400 in your bank account and someone stole $10 😤
would you be upset and throw the remaining $86,390 away? 🤔
No
we have 86,400 seconds each day ⏳
don’t let 10 seconds of negativity ruin your day 🙌 🙌
@jessereiss I think a mode that yields the highest probability of success is:
By hypothesis: if we do X, Y will happen.
If you’re not tracking the impact of what you are delivering, you’re just gambling
@NateSilver538 I used to teach Bayes theorem and its results still surprise me!
Here’s the type of diagram that usually helps it all make sense for me:
Apparently, I part ways with many people in my view that just because you disagree strenuously with someone’s opinion, doesn't mean you should never again have a conversation with them.
This. This is every interracial family in America. Every friendship across color lines. Every employer who hired an employee who she respects even with opposite politics.
Stop telling us how much our parents & brothers and co-workers hate us.
It’s untrue:
Actual sequence of events:
The Attorney General announces a US Attorney has resigned.
The US Attorney says he hasn’t resigned.
The Attorney General announces the President has now fired the US Attorney.
The President says “I’m not involved.”
Was doing a protest walk-and-talk with @JonBatiste when the woman in the Mets cap came out of the crowd to watch my cameraman Evelio’s back.
A few miles later she introduced herself and said “I work for @foxandfriends but we’re all on the same team today, right?”