Some thoughts inspired by Dr. Alan Levinovitz's recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience.

Some thoughts inspired by The New Curators: Who Decides What’s Culturally Important?

Margaret Heffernan describes being wilfully blind as when we (consciously or subconsciously) choose to ignore what we “could know and should know but don’t know because it makes us feel better not to know.”

Are we (perhaps unwittingly) contributing to the spreading of bullsh*t, and what impact could this be having on the learning of others? More to the point, should we even care?

Recently, Ryan Adams was listening to Taylor Swift's 1989 on his tour bus. To kill some time on the road between venues, Adams experimented with playing some of the songs in his own style.

What is it to think critically? In some ways, it's being adept at detecting bullshit. Indeed, I often tell students they need to be a bit more like Bullshit Man.