Information. Maybe it's the coolest thing ever.

Then again, it's kinda big, isn't it? Kinda gnarly, in the gnarled-haunted-tree kind of way? Convoluted so badly it's hard to tell backwards from forwards? And seriously...where does it stop?
When is enough enough?

Whether you want to wrap your head around information better,

– how and where to trust in a world dipping deeper into trustlessness? –

want to better understand how the details build into the broadest strokes,

– social fractals develop from pervasive information patterns –

are designing information structures,

– purposeful design contributes to purposeful change and more fluid future shifts –

are curious about how information functions,

– the gnarly, never-ending, holistic vastiness, intertwingled with humanity –

or how people ingest it,

– the near-infinite possibility of combinations and permutations –

or how people use it,

– ways to structure and represent it to bridge machine and human –

...it all starts with information literacy.

» Slow down

Find your inner turtle. It'll transform into a speed demon with practice.

» Information literacy basic mechanics

Transparency. Traceability. Replicability. Accountability (who-ness).

» Thinking models introduction

People can skew information. Bonus: more people, thinking more, can bring information iteratively closer to mirroring reality.

» Trailing information environment

Information is not just you and the source. It has many hands, many organizations, and many lenses.

» Shift your "grading" assumption

Finding the difference and balance between memory and thinking.

» Anger and information

Hint: when used manipulatively, it's intended to derail thinking.

» More reading: thinking models

Don't just take what I say at face value. That's what we're trying to stop doing. Read some more, from different sources. :) Go crazy: approach it with each of the thinking models, see how it changes the flavor.

Here's a list to start springboarding.

» Information literacy pieces

What's above will get you started, but guess what: I love information, and think, and write. I don't use AI. This is not a regurgitation of old ideas, unattributed; but constantly folding in wider constructs, recalibrating, rebalancing, and checking in with what was understood previously.

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