
12 2024 November
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Win Bigly – Persuasion In A World Where Facts Don’t Matter | 2nd Edition, by Scott Adams
Back in 2017, I selected this book as a winner in our Non-Obvious Book Awards program that year because of how perfectly it described a...
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25 2024 October
Mail In Voting, Ballots and the Truth About Voting Transparency in America
I already voted. Millions of Americans have too. In Virginia, you can register to vote by absentee ballot and just mail in your vote early....
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27 2024 September
This Chatbot Could Actually Change Minds … Using Facts?!
The prevailing wisdom about human behaviors and beliefs today is that facts are not persuasive in changing minds or shifting beliefs. Usually, it’s true. That’s...
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23 2024 September
UK Non-Profit Ties Baby Slings on Statues to Fight for Paternity Leave
Across London this week, people have been encountering an unusual sight. Statues of famous men are adorned with wraparound baby carriers filled with dolls. The exhibits...
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17 2024 September
This Yogurt Brand Will Pay You $1000 To Stay Off Social Media Until After the Election Is Over
How will you avoid the toxic conversations that often come along with an election cycle? It might start with avoiding social media altogether. Yogurt brand Stonyfield...
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13 2024 September
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: STFU – The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in An Endlessly Noisy World, by Dan Lyons
Fresh from hours of pundit cross examining and dissecting the first (and probably only) Presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, it’s hard to...
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UPDATE: Behind the Scenes of Influencers at the DNC Convention
Last week, many of you wrote to me about a story I shared about the treatment of the media at the Democratic National Convention and how they...
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What the Democrats Got Wrong About Media at the Convention
One of the truths about our new media environment is the central role that influencers are taking in the content people consume and trust. Particularly...
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The Importance of Local News
This month was a big one for political news, obviously … but as we come closer to the U.S. election, one of the elements that...
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The Assassination Attempt and Why the “Obvious” Conclusions Are Usually Wrong
The biggest news story of the past week was certainly the assassination attempt on former President Trump’s life and almost immediately in the aftermath of...
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Too Little Government
Is there such a thing as too little government? This feels like a loaded political question in a time when trust in government is historically low. Government and...
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The Next Generation of Political Polling Is Asking AI to Simulate Human Voters
Have you ever picked up the phone to answer a call from a pollster? I can probably guess your answer, and that’s not uncommon. A...
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India Is Ground Zero for the Irresistible Appeal of Sanctioned Deepfakes
The biggest AI story this week was the showdown between Open AI and actress Scarlett Johansson over the use of a voice concerningly similar to...
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