The smartest people I know, and not necessarily the most academically gifted, possess weapons grade pattern recognition that they use mercilessly in every facet of their life.
At this point, I think I have like 5 agents (Muse, Instinct, Codex-built, Claude Code-built, Grokbot) vying to prep me for my day and draft email responses... which I then ignore.
First, I stopped responding to people I don’t respect.
Then, I stopped trying to explain myself to people who benefit from misunderstanding me.
Finally, I stopped giving my attention to people I wouldn’t choose to sit across from at dinner.
Once you remove the noise, there really isn’t much left to respond to… because the people who matter aren’t the ones doing goofy shii.
Instead of hot takes & uninformed opinions, Blacksplained asks a scholar, expert or person who knows things to tackle ONE ISSUE from a Black perspective:
This week, in her one & only interview, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones Blacksplains "The Article." https://t.co/IkSzZaV8JS
MIT has been placed at No. 1 in an annual ranking of U.S. colleges, with Princeton losing out on the top spot for the first time in 15 years. https://t.co/LCmqdLkcZ8