People will double down on their beliefs if you present them with facts that violate their belief system. Johnny: It's something that has fascinated me forever, and at's going to dominate a large part of our conversation to day. I think i'm particularly bad at narrowing my attention. My instinct is to rabbit a whole forty two layers deep. An ii've actually kind of lost why i wanted to do this in the first place.
In this episode of Infinite Loops we speak with Johnny Nelson, @generativist, on the state of Social Media and the Internet. We discuss about:
- Managing your attention
- Algorithms: Good or bad?
- Censorship on social media
- What will make people adopt a new social platform?
- Is history an accurate predictor of the future?
- And a LOT more!
Follow Johnny on Twitter at:
https://twitter.com/generativist and read his essays here:
https://generativist.falsifiable.com/