Today many of us are farther away from ground truth. The internet is an incredible means of sharing and discovering information, but it promotes or suppresses narratives based on clicks, shares, impressions, attention, ad performance, reach, drop off rates, and virality—all metrics of social feedback. As our organizations grow larger, our careers are increasingly beholden to performance reviews, middle managers’ proclivities, and our capacity to navigate bureaucracy. We find ourselves increasingly calibrated by social feedback and more distant from direct validation or repudiation of our beliefs about the world.
I seek a way to get empirical feedback on this set of claims- specifically the direction-of-change-over-time assertions “farther… increasingly… more distant...”
I seek a way to get empirical feedback on this set of claims- specifically the direction-of-change-over-time assertions “farther… increasingly… more distant...”