On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 1:44 PM Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote:
> This piece [1], on one of THE hotbutton topics of the last year, caught my > attention. The background of the writer (one of Facebook's earliest > investors and a longtime mentor of Mark Zuckerberg) makes it more > disquieting. It's a long but worthwhile read, which I recommend. > Adding it to my To Read list > Speaking for myself, > > * Online (primarily facebook) - I deliberately follow people whose > viewpoints I find toxic, or even completely alien. I also use forums like > silk to practice "having my mind changed". > * Offline - I have a goal of meeting at least one new interesting person a > week, a goal I have successfully met for over a decade. And, of course, > there's The Goa Project, which I do explicitly in order to meet new > interesting people. > Online: I will split this into two parts: Work Online and Personal Online. I follow a handful of people who are elsewhere on the political landscape than me in the Work Online realm. Mostly, these are people whose views diverge me from on the Fiscal policy axis. On the Personal Online realm, I follow a handful of people who fall under the Rockefeller Republican, Economist and Financial Times subscriber umbrellas. Offline: I find it much easier (than online) to talk to, and even exchange views with people from other parts of the political landscape. Thaths
