Societal

Just a Single Snowflake

What harm can a snowflake do? Is it part of a light winter snow fall gently floating to the ground that I can play in? Or is it part of an avalanche racing towards me about to bury me? “For some, the only difference between a classroom and a plantation, is time.” “At the core, none of us were meant to be common. We were born to be commets.

Social Media Being Driven by Confirmation Bias

I knew this years ago when noticing how Facebook was adjusting feeds. People that I didn’t view started getting filtered out and the more I looked at a particular topic I started seeing a lot more suggestions around those topics. Very specific suggested posts and articles too; extremely well targeted. I became acutely aware that I was inadvertently being steered down a path by a feed of information. I was personally looking at motivational material and adventure related sports, but it was easy to see that this was being done across the board.