Ian Bremmer

don't do that.

Most of my friends in those countries don't consume the media outside their countries.

I think that's an increasingly smart way to go.

And then the final thing that I do, and again, in terms of public consumption, we're not talking about private consumption,

of our own analysts and our own network and who we talk to and how we engage is I probably have among the 2,000 people that I follow on Twitter, which is the platform that I personally spend more time on to get information,

and I don't do the for you feed at all, I do the who I'm following, that's been pretty carefully curated to be a broad political spectrum of people that have a great deal of expertise

covering most of the issues that I think are important globally.

And if anyone wanted to go into my file and look at the people I'm following, I think you'd get a pretty good basic, here it is, with the recognition that it doesn't show up chronologically in your feed, which is annoying, and makes more people want to go to the For You feed.

But I still think that when you refresh it a few times, you usually get a pretty good sense.

One, it's taken a long time.

You don't build a relationship of trust like that in a day.

You do it over years and years.

The conversations usually are pretty one-sided to start.

And when one-sided, I mean, I'm doing the briefing and not much is coming back my way.

And because they're already giving you something.

If they're important, if they're already some form of global leader, a head of state, a key minister, a CEO of a major corporation, what have you.

they're giving you the most valuable thing they have, which is their time.

It can be 20 minutes.

It can be an hour.

But the fact that they're giving you that needs to be understood and respected by you in that meeting so that you're already in a deficit when you enter the meeting and you need to be providing value in return for what they've given you.