Kaizen Asiedu

And even if you think about the ideas like news stories, they're stories, right? So they might be based on facts, but the arrangement of the facts is what creates a story. What facts you choose to highlight versus what facts you choose to marginalize, that's a subjective decision that people are always making all the time.

And even if you think about the ideas like news stories, they're stories, right? So they might be based on facts, but the arrangement of the facts is what creates a story. What facts you choose to highlight versus what facts you choose to marginalize, that's a subjective decision that people are always making all the time.

And even if you think about the ideas like news stories, they're stories, right? So they might be based on facts, but the arrangement of the facts is what creates a story. What facts you choose to highlight versus what facts you choose to marginalize, that's a subjective decision that people are always making all the time.

So once I started to look at the news that way, it helped me just become more flexible in my thinking and start to question a lot of the things that I took to be true.

So once I started to look at the news that way, it helped me just become more flexible in my thinking and start to question a lot of the things that I took to be true.

So once I started to look at the news that way, it helped me just become more flexible in my thinking and start to question a lot of the things that I took to be true.

COVID. That was a big wake-up call for a lot of people. Unfortunately, it actually wasn't a big wake-up call for me. But in hindsight, it was really useful. So... Back in 2020, again, I mentioned my background, default Democrat. I worked in tech, so I was an employee, right? And at that time, I didn't actually feel afraid of getting COVID.

COVID. That was a big wake-up call for a lot of people. Unfortunately, it actually wasn't a big wake-up call for me. But in hindsight, it was really useful. So... Back in 2020, again, I mentioned my background, default Democrat. I worked in tech, so I was an employee, right? And at that time, I didn't actually feel afraid of getting COVID.

COVID. That was a big wake-up call for a lot of people. Unfortunately, it actually wasn't a big wake-up call for me. But in hindsight, it was really useful. So... Back in 2020, again, I mentioned my background, default Democrat. I worked in tech, so I was an employee, right? And at that time, I didn't actually feel afraid of getting COVID.

And I saw this dissonance between the headlines and all the fear that was in the headlines versus my day-to-day experience just walking around. I was like, I just don't actually feel like this is a pandemic. This is not like the bubonic plague with people dying in the streets. This is something that I'm being told is coming and we need to prepare for it.

And I saw this dissonance between the headlines and all the fear that was in the headlines versus my day-to-day experience just walking around. I was like, I just don't actually feel like this is a pandemic. This is not like the bubonic plague with people dying in the streets. This is something that I'm being told is coming and we need to prepare for it.

And I saw this dissonance between the headlines and all the fear that was in the headlines versus my day-to-day experience just walking around. I was like, I just don't actually feel like this is a pandemic. This is not like the bubonic plague with people dying in the streets. This is something that I'm being told is coming and we need to prepare for it.

What I did feel fear around was the amount of tribalism and social propaganda around what it meant to be a vaccinated person. Because essentially the battle lines were drawn at either you're vaccinated and you're a good person or you're unvaccinated and you're a bad person.

What I did feel fear around was the amount of tribalism and social propaganda around what it meant to be a vaccinated person. Because essentially the battle lines were drawn at either you're vaccinated and you're a good person or you're unvaccinated and you're a bad person.

What I did feel fear around was the amount of tribalism and social propaganda around what it meant to be a vaccinated person. Because essentially the battle lines were drawn at either you're vaccinated and you're a good person or you're unvaccinated and you're a bad person.

And when there's sort of like moral importance attached to a decision that people are making about their own personal health, it distorts the conversation and it's no longer about health, it's about morality. It's not a conversation about, hey, do I need the vaccine because it's good for me and I have risk factors that make me susceptible to COVID.

And when there's sort of like moral importance attached to a decision that people are making about their own personal health, it distorts the conversation and it's no longer about health, it's about morality. It's not a conversation about, hey, do I need the vaccine because it's good for me and I have risk factors that make me susceptible to COVID.

And when there's sort of like moral importance attached to a decision that people are making about their own personal health, it distorts the conversation and it's no longer about health, it's about morality. It's not a conversation about, hey, do I need the vaccine because it's good for me and I have risk factors that make me susceptible to COVID.

It's instead a conversation about, hey, am I going to be respected by my family and friends and part of the tribe if I choose to not get the vaccine? So for me, there wasn't much of a questioning process. I just got the vaccine out of default because all of my friend groups were doing it.

It's instead a conversation about, hey, am I going to be respected by my family and friends and part of the tribe if I choose to not get the vaccine? So for me, there wasn't much of a questioning process. I just got the vaccine out of default because all of my friend groups were doing it.