Joshua Greene

So one is Giving Multiplier, which is part of the PODS Fight Poverty project, which is essentially encouraging people to support charities that they have a personal connection to, but also charities that are highly impactful.

And this is a way of kind of building a bridge and expanding the circle in a way that feels comfortable to people.

My other main public-facing project is a game called Tango, which is a cooperative quiz game that you play with a partner who might be different from you.

So Republicans and Democrats in the US, Arabs and Jews in Israel, Palestine, Hindus and Muslims in India, for example.

And there, we're getting people to connect in a fun game-like context where there are prizes and where you don't have to worry about

having a big fight about ideology, the game is set up so that you can easily cooperate and use each other's knowledge and skills in a productive way.

And so that's I think the general advice I think is you need to appeal to people's motivations as they already exist and figure out how to turn that into a positive experience that makes people want to engage more widely.

You know, I think Rick is in a better position to answer that question than I am.

So I'll pass it to him if he wants.

I'll speak more from personal experience because it's not something that I directly research.

I think that curiosity can be an entryway to that broader understanding, right?

That if you want to understand the people who really piss you off, right?

But you just you really you have a drive to understand that that can lead to an understanding.

Well, why are these people so angry and why are they lashing out at me?

Right.

Or or or or or people like me.

And, you know, there's a I think a French saying to to to know all is to forgive all.

Right.

And curiosity sort of.

hopefully doesn't make you a know-it-all, but makes you want to know more.