The only thing that’s required to be a good scientist is intellectual humility, to understand that you could be wrong about things, things that everyone takes for granted — you could still question them, and when you’re presented with new evidence and new data you are willing to change your mind, and you are willing to operate with ambiguity and uncertainty about the world, … that’s basically all the qualities you need to be a scientist.
Aravind Srinivas, Joe Rogan Experience #2521 [1:23:45 – 1:24:10]
Tag: advertising
If you don’t get any attention, you won’t be in business
Attention equals money — that this is a literal attention economy. People — it would be silly to think that these things don’t matter, because — if it is your industry — obviously if you don’t get any attention, you won’t be in business.
Attention equals money — this is a literal attention economy – Teaser News [ https://teaser.news.blog/2026/05/17/attention-equals-money-this-is-a-literal-attention-economy ]
All of Your Advice is Kind of Outdated for the Problems that I’m Going Through
[… but] there’s all of this context to explain it — and so hopefully it’s a book that gives some compassion to that [viewspective?]
“What the Internet Did to Girls – Freya India” (“Walk-Ins Welcome #388“) [ https://www.phetasy.com/p/walk-ins-welcome-388 ], ca. 2:12 – 2:48
See also my current ongoing series (roughly about the “business plan” of “social media”):
- First Meditation on Social Media: Let’s Get Social [ https://socio.business.blog/2026/04/25/first-meditation-on-social-media-lets-get-social ]
- Second Meditation on Social Media [GMTA:] Great Minds Think Alike 🙂 [ https://socio.business.blog/2026/05/02/second-meditation-on-social-media-gmta-great-minds-think-alike ]
- Third Meditation on Social Media: Segregation , Segmentation & Differing [ https://socio.business.blog/2026/05/10/third-meditation-on-social-media-segregation-segmentation-differing ]
I think it’s a baby with the bathwater type deal
When you round up all the “gang-members” — right? — and you fly them to El Salvador …
JRE 2324 Amanda Knox [ 37:30 – 37:38 ]
See also “Delayed Information” [ https://socio.business.blog/2025/02/16/delayed-information ]
Mainstream media is dying faster than you think, and you’ve got to jump ship now (and get over to these other outlets and these other spaces)
In other words: alternative is the new mainstream 😉
image source: Chris Cillizza video w/ Claire Atkinson “How the mainstream media screwed itself” (24:01) quote source ibid, (57:28 – 57:37)




