information literacy - smudging the binary

information literacy

Emotions are partly information

Emotions are their own complexity. They are part autonomic response, part biofeedback, part microbiome, and part nervous system. They can react to both more than you're actively paying attention to, and key into a small fraction of the whole current situation. They are the first blushes of reaction.

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Learning is hard work

Diagram of a person being pulled between black and white nodes, when there is a sea of gray nodes all around.

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Whataboutism and both-sides as information manipulation

information literacy

Anger and information

Our society has been living in a stew of anger for over a decade now. Anger, like all our emotions, is a complex physiologic and emotional response. Anger sits as a facet of shared environment that includes complex information. Anger, like all shared information, can be manipulated. Anger can be

Stacks of rectangles leading into the distance.

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Thinking models

aka systematic processes, empirical methods, experimental techniques, and probably a few more. As far as I've been able to research – and I didn't start wondering what others were calling them as a group until I went to title this page, and I've been thinking

Common process of source to ingestion of information, passing through multiple minds and multiple parsing structures before it gets to the person who is now reading it.

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Trailing information environment

With each point of interaction information goes through, it can have interpretation embedded. Also perspective, and context, and information literacy. Each person can impress their own cognitive behaviors into what information moves forward. All of these are embedded in transmission. They are an important part of how we decide to

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Slow down

Seriously. If you want to understand: slow down. The ubiquitous standards of business has us all focused on efficiency and speed. There are very few corners of life where we aren't racing to the end, trying to get there with as few steps as possible, as quickly as