Kaizen Asiedu

So at the time of George Floyd, I was living in L.A. I'm black. There was this incident involving a white cop and a black man. Right. And I remember seeing the reaction from everyone around me being, oh my God, black people are being so oppressed and there's so much police brutality toward black people.

So at the time of George Floyd, I was living in L.A. I'm black. There was this incident involving a white cop and a black man. Right. And I remember seeing the reaction from everyone around me being, oh my God, black people are being so oppressed and there's so much police brutality toward black people.

And I remember thinking to myself, I have never had a negative experience with a police person in my life. And I had friends like asking me about my experience and I almost felt like there was this expectation that I buy into the narrative that there's this oppression and I've been subject to it on the basis of the color of my skin as well.

And I remember thinking to myself, I have never had a negative experience with a police person in my life. And I had friends like asking me about my experience and I almost felt like there was this expectation that I buy into the narrative that there's this oppression and I've been subject to it on the basis of the color of my skin as well.

And I remember thinking to myself, I have never had a negative experience with a police person in my life. And I had friends like asking me about my experience and I almost felt like there was this expectation that I buy into the narrative that there's this oppression and I've been subject to it on the basis of the color of my skin as well.

So that was one of the early wake-up calls that, hey, okay, what people are being told is going on doesn't necessarily match my own experience. And that started to create a general default of more skepticism toward narratives about what was going on versus what was actually going on.

So that was one of the early wake-up calls that, hey, okay, what people are being told is going on doesn't necessarily match my own experience. And that started to create a general default of more skepticism toward narratives about what was going on versus what was actually going on.

So that was one of the early wake-up calls that, hey, okay, what people are being told is going on doesn't necessarily match my own experience. And that started to create a general default of more skepticism toward narratives about what was going on versus what was actually going on.

So when we say confidence, I wouldn't say I was confident because I'm not a scientist who was verifying the information for myself about the vaccine. But when I thought about this just from first principles, I thought, okay, Well, this is something that we've known about for months. It's been happening in China, and then it was happening in Italy, and we were being told it would come to America.

So when we say confidence, I wouldn't say I was confident because I'm not a scientist who was verifying the information for myself about the vaccine. But when I thought about this just from first principles, I thought, okay, Well, this is something that we've known about for months. It's been happening in China, and then it was happening in Italy, and we were being told it would come to America.

So when we say confidence, I wouldn't say I was confident because I'm not a scientist who was verifying the information for myself about the vaccine. But when I thought about this just from first principles, I thought, okay, Well, this is something that we've known about for months. It's been happening in China, and then it was happening in Italy, and we were being told it would come to America.

Now we're being told it's happening in America. But what we don't have is some situation where there's incredibly high mortality. It might have high virality, but it's not necessarily high mortality. So at minimum, we can start to ask some questions about, hey, do we actually understand the mechanism of action of this thing? And do we actually understand who's at risk here?

Now we're being told it's happening in America. But what we don't have is some situation where there's incredibly high mortality. It might have high virality, but it's not necessarily high mortality. So at minimum, we can start to ask some questions about, hey, do we actually understand the mechanism of action of this thing? And do we actually understand who's at risk here?

Now we're being told it's happening in America. But what we don't have is some situation where there's incredibly high mortality. It might have high virality, but it's not necessarily high mortality. So at minimum, we can start to ask some questions about, hey, do we actually understand the mechanism of action of this thing? And do we actually understand who's at risk here?

Those are, I think, basic questions that any regular person should ask. But instead, the narratives seem to be expect a severe winter of illness and death, right? That's what President Biden literally said on the whitehouse.gov website. And that's not at all what happened. So for me, it was less about confidence.

Those are, I think, basic questions that any regular person should ask. But instead, the narratives seem to be expect a severe winter of illness and death, right? That's what President Biden literally said on the whitehouse.gov website. And that's not at all what happened. So for me, it was less about confidence.

Those are, I think, basic questions that any regular person should ask. But instead, the narratives seem to be expect a severe winter of illness and death, right? That's what President Biden literally said on the whitehouse.gov website. And that's not at all what happened. So for me, it was less about confidence.

It was more about, hey, is there a dissonance between my personal experience and what I'm being told to expect? And anywhere I see that kind of gap, then there's an information gap that's not being bridged either by me as an individual or by the authorities who are telling me to believe something.

It was more about, hey, is there a dissonance between my personal experience and what I'm being told to expect? And anywhere I see that kind of gap, then there's an information gap that's not being bridged either by me as an individual or by the authorities who are telling me to believe something.

It was more about, hey, is there a dissonance between my personal experience and what I'm being told to expect? And anywhere I see that kind of gap, then there's an information gap that's not being bridged either by me as an individual or by the authorities who are telling me to believe something.