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You don't necessarily need to speak this way. But if you at least no.
start to think in terms of "updating" instead of "admitting you were wrong," you may find that it takes a lot of friction out of the process.
An update is routine. Low-key. It's the opposite of an overwrought confession of sin. An update makes something better or more current without implying that its previous form was a failure.
The Scout Mindset
Julia Galef
This has turned communicators of all kinds – from fashion influencers to public health specialists – into Kremlinologists who obsessively analyze the behavior of social media algorithms in the hopes of learning how to please them and (more importantly) how to avoid their punishments.
Pluralistic: 11 Apr 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily Links From Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
Bring this new computing paradigm together with books like Jay Forrester’s Urban Dynamics (which used computer simulations to model cities) and Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities (an attack on the linear modernism of urban planning, focusing instead on the city as an organic system) and you get a new, and addictively fun, way of making sense of the world: the simulation video game.
The New Control Society
thenewatlantis.com
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