Author Archives: idj4thinking

There’s a lot of different schools of thought about how to make journalism good. Here’s a few: you can have a strong editor who doesn’t share expertise or strong opinions on the topics being reported. This way, you get a second opinion on what’s being written. This helps from a standpoint of reducing bias, butContinue reading “What would data literate journalism look like?”

Hosting standup comedy is so much fun! Doing it gives you instant credibility, you get to practice your stuff, and it’s a great way of getting your presence built. You don’t really need to be good at comedy to introduce people well. Instead, you just need to express earnestness, and people love it. You getContinue reading “I Love Hosting!”

Is critical thinking a good thing? It depends on the situation. Thinking too closely about authority can often land you in hot water. You don’t always have to land in hot water. Sometimes you can land in cold water when you coolly assess situations, logically, analytically.

I’ve been completing tons of courses recently. I finished a product management course and I’m on track to finishing a Prompt Engineering specialization, so that I can better ask questions and improve my critical thinking skills. I want to think through things quickly, and when I learn automation and prompt engineering, I’ll better be ableContinue reading “Automation and Usefulness”

There’s this obnoxious habit a lot of people have of consistently showing up 20-40 minutes late to things. I like to let people know that when they do that, they aren’t being respectful of my time. My time is worth between 100-200 an hour, at least when my employer bills for me. So, the ideaContinue reading “Don’t waste my time, respectfully”

Sometimes nutrition isn’t the most fun. Variety is exciting but consistency is challenging. This is why you probably shouldn’t be fancy when approaching diet, and instead opt for boring and a lot. I’m able to eat as much as I want, provided it’s broccoli, celery, or carrots. This balances variety with health, and I findContinue reading “Broccoli and Broccoli and Broccoli”

Something that eternally frustrates me is nonchalant-ness winning in the short term. Why? WHY DO PEOPLE WHO FAIL TO TRY OFTEN SUCCEED? I think it’s because of the valley of despair that happens when you try to improve yourself. Pain, anxiety, and adjustment need to happen before you can flex your newfound excellence in anything.Continue reading “Blessed be the Blasé”

Many people when they visit issues try and examine things from three separate potential perspectives. What’s happened, what is happening, and what will happen. I think in general that many people are good at recognizing what happened, are bad at understanding what is presently occurring, and are terrible at looking forward. People tend to beContinue reading “Forward, Backward, Or Present Looking”