Meditations and Learnings

Meditations and Learnings

The Axiom of the Infinite Unknown - #6: The OG False Dichotomy | Race, Racism, and Sensemaking

Not an easy conversation to have, at least not unless you have friends like Ciaran O’Regan or James Valaitis. On the agenda is race, police reform, the killing of George Floyd, the subsequent protests & riots, and the need for better sensemaking.

Show Notes:
Ciaran O’Regan’s article
www.quarrelsomelife.com/blog/brai…

Prevalence induced concept creep
science.sciencemag.org/content/3…

Availability heuristic
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avai…

Roy Baumeister - The Power of Bad
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/313…

John McWhorter’s article
time.com/4404987/p…

Glenn Loury’s article
quillette.com/2020/06/0…

Glenn & John’s podcast
youtu.be/2RMEiclpA…

Stats for 2018/2019 crime rates
www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/…
ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-…

Tony Timpa
www.independent.co.uk/news/worl…

Coleman Hughes & Meghan Murphy
youtu.be/8C-VrsK93…

Ciaran’s video
youtu.be/qdzwJZ4jz…

Yuval Noah Harari
www.ft.com/content/1…

Krebs Cycle of CreATP
jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/ageof…

Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
youtu.be/OjEt7iMJl…

Ciaran O’ Regan:
Website - www.quarrelsomelife.com
Instagram - @CTQuarrelsome
Twitter - @CTQuarrelsome

James Valaitis:
Website - infinityjames.com
Twitter - @infinityjames