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Knowing things is not the same as understanding them. Comprehension is not the same thing as analysis.
“metacognition.” This is the ability to know when you’re not good at something by stepping back, looking at what you’re doing, and then realizing that you’re doing it wrong. Good
Americans who worry more about an exotic disease than about talking on their mobile phones while driving home after having a few drinks at the local pub.
Pommer’s Law, in which the Internet can only change a person’s mind from having no opinion to having a wrong opinion.
Had Ailes not created Fox, someone would have, because the market, as talk radio proved, was already there.
It is true, in fact, that veterans are killing themselves at higher rates in the twenty-first century than in earlier years. But in part, that’s because everybody has been killing themselves at higher rates—
networks don’t have a centralized leadership structure and clear lines of authority, they have real difficulty reaching consensus and setting goals. They can’t think strategically; they are chronically prone to conflict and error.
How do you make difficult choices about tactics or strategy or philosophical direction when everyone has an equal say?
