It's a "belief-driven" world, not a "data-driven" one, fam

It's not nearly as "data-driven" a world as we claim it is, but rather one constructed on beliefs, assumptions, and confirmation bias. We're all guilty.

Not sure if WordPress still embeds tweets, but I was just in this discussion on the old Twitter device and my friend Theresa said this:

https://twitter.com/twigliot/status/1280170033369370625?s=20

She was a guest on my podcast a bit ago talking about Japanese culture and motherhood, as an aside.

I've written about this idea a couple of times in my life. I …