All Communication Lessons
All Communication Lessons
The presentation of the TIDAL Approach to Decision Making. The TIDAL approach is designed to mitigate the perceptual limitations caused by the way our brain works. Selective perception, confirmation bias, motivated reasoning, and cultural/linguistic biases are real things that affect our decision-making.
Using The Social Dilemma Transcript this lesson tries to understand the influences Social Media has on the community and what should we do about it. Updated March 27, 2023
I just learned a new term – Streaming analytics. Apparently streaming analytics is the application of analytics to data while it’s in motion, and before it’s stored – and includes data manipulation, normalization, cleansing and pattern of interest detection. Streaming...
Something I have to say to my friends and family. For what it is worth. During Donald Trump’s campaign for president, Trump was repeatedly asked, by many in the Jewish community, to stop using the phrase “America First” to describe his foreign policy views. The reason...
Three months after I graduated from college and following a summer journalism fellowship at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, I had my first interview for a full-time newspaper reporting job. It was in Wilmington, N.C. The managing editor of the newspaper picked me up...
[ted id=2265] Great Video of how we think. Specifically the comments about how we can take very little information and create huge conclusions.
Think about a gold wedding band. There are three distinct phases of that gold band. Phase 1 is the beginning of life for band, the mining and manufacturing of the band. Phase 2 is the longest period for the band, the time it is worn. And Phase 3 is when the band...
In Decision Science there are three things: Data Facts Conclusions Data are bits of information (0’s and 1’s). Facts are bits of information that happen to be “true.” And Conclusions are the actionable ideas we take from the data and facts. The key here is that...
First things first: Confidence is not bravado, or swagger, or an overt pretense of bravery. Confidence is not some bold or brash air of self-belief directed at others. Confidence is quiet: It’s a natural expression of ability, expertise, and self-regard. 1. They take...
“If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of...
In the movie Stargate he says, to plot a course you need 7 points; 6 points for the destination, and 1 point for the origination. This is a true statement. And there is a lot you can learn from that statement. 1) The more precise you know your location the more...