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Finding knowledge in WhatsApp World An experiment with online analysers and AI

How to find valuable knowledge buried in busy WhatsApp groups…
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Remember: They want you scattered. Your focus is resistance.

4/ Practice going slow: Wait 48hrs before reacting to new policies. The urgent clouds the important. Initial reporting often misses context

5/ Build community: Share the cognitive load. Different people track different issues. Network intelligence beats individual overload.

2/ Use aggregators & experts: Find trusted analysts who do the heavy lifting of synthesis. Look for those explaining patterns, not just events.

3/ Remember: Feeling overwhelmed is the point. When you recognize this, you regain some power. Take breaks. Process. This is a marathon.

What now?
1/ Set boundaries: Pick 2-3 key issues you deeply care about and focus your attention there. You can't track everything - that's by design. Impact comes from sustained focus, not scattered awareness.

3/ Agenda-setting theory explains the strategy: When multiple major policies compete for attention simultaneously, it fragments public discourse. Traditional media can't keep up with the pace, leading to superficial coverage.

The result?
Weakened democratic oversight and reduced public engagement.

2/ Media theorist McLuhan predicted this: When humans face info overload, they become passive & disengaged. Rapid-fire exec orders create a cognitive bottleneck so it’s nearly impossible to thoroughly analyze any single policy.

1/ The 200+ executive orders in Trump's first days is "shock doctrine" to create chaos & crisis so radical changes can be made while people are too disoriented to resist. It’s not politics as usual - it's a strategic exploitation of cognitive limits.

From Swiss sociologist Jennifer Walter about Trump’s overwhelm strategy & what to do about it (originally on Threads):

Overwhelm is the goal.

@tribelaw.bsky.social Hi Larry - your ’curvature of constitutional space’ (1989) inspired me to link the electro-magnetic spectrum with our behaviours.
I’d love to know what you think of it. Also - can I persuade you to write a letter linking your thoughts of the 80’s to the world we’re in today?

Glad I snapped as soon as I saw this - 10s later it was gone. Got to be good for a #caption…

Hold Things Lightly: The most useful advice I’ve ever been given Here’s why it’s so helpful and how you can use it yourself

Hold things lightly. Best advice I’ve ever been given. We’ll need each other in 2025, so let’s handle ourselves with care

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Principles and practices of peace education Principles and practices of peace education explores how peace might be built in everyday classroom practice. It can be used as individual study or as a basis for CPD with a larger group. It ...

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Risking too many posts in 1 day for this! Please write to me if you sign up - would love to share your journey on #TheMediumOfLetters #changemakers

My daughter braving the cold.
#beachlife #coldwaterswim #photography #iphonepics
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Collaborating with the Enemy: How to Work with People You Don’t Agree with or Like or Trust Your chance to contribute to a second edition

Did you read this first time around? If so, Adam is looking for contributors to the 2nd edition. You'll preview drafts, test tools and zoom call with the author/others who share your interest. Dive in! #radicalcollaboration #conflictresolution #thoughtleadership #selfawareness #TheMediumOfLetters

My word of the day is ‘magnificating’ - to make things magnificent.

Good manifesto - nice simple, clear guidance. Hold or lightly, do what you can and collaborate 👍

Autogaslighting: what is it and how might we resist it? Our culture makes us doubt the sanity of challenging ‘business as usual’ when deep down we know it’s harming us

Just published a letter from The Uncertain Solicitor about Autogaslighting. The writer's asking how we can resist the gaslighting of 'business as usual' in the face of catastrophic climate heating and biodiversity loss. Send a letter back if you have helpful ideas! medium.com/the-letters-...

Loving this Veronica- I'm trying to do my bit by highlighting important initiatives like The Circle. Just set up a Letters Page on Medium aiming to extend reach beyond 'usual suspects' if you're interested? bsky.app/profile/poll...

Went to the #nationalportraitgallery a few weeks ago and spotted Annie Lennox sticking it to the patriarchy. Sisters are doing it brilliant for themselves at The Circle www.thecircle.ngo/about-us/
Important work for all of us

And 🙌 to the BBC 100 Women Production Team for putting it all together 🎉
Valeria Perasso, Natalia Pianzola, Maria Zaccaro, Rebecca Thorn, Lara Owen, Natasha Fernandes, Niamh Hughes, Ahmen Khawaja, Shaina Oppenheimer, Sarah Tiamiyu and Rubab Batool

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Number crunching: Parliamentary petitions

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Hi Hannah - love prospect magazine’s confidence in predicting best thoughts of the year a year in advance 😂😂
Would love a chat about the thinks you’ve thunk already. Partly because @thrivingplaces.bsky.social is data driven, and partly because The Letters Page is thought driven…

BBC 100 Women 2024: Who is on the list this year? - BBC News BBC reveals the 2024 100 Women list. Here are the most inspiring and influential women for 2024 from around the world selected by the BBC.

Loving the bbc Inspiring Women list from all 4 corners of the globe - I used to do something like this at a local level in Bristol. Noticing and naming unsung heroes has more impact than you might expect…

YouTube video by Steve Cutts The Turning Point

I think this is a fantastically powerful clip. Does it change your perspective? If it changes your world view, what do you think might change in your life?

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Hi Lee, would love a conversation about your aspirations for this work and having a little play with ideas

Jean Boulton on LinkedIn: November 28th at 4pm UK time, I am doing a talk at the Schumacher… November 28th at 4pm UK time, I am doing a talk at the Schumacher Institute in Bristol which can also be joined online. In this talk I want to talk about how…

Looking forward to hearing Jean talk at Schumacher Institute online tomorrow - she’s great! Maybe see some of you there…