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John Wood Jr. Profile picture
@JohnRWoodJr
Jun 29, 2020 • 14 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
Hey folks!

Beautiful to have people taking an interest in my work and commentary.

Here's me & some of the people I've been honored to speak and think with for anyone to consider:

w/ @BretWeinstein

With @arthurbrooks (and my brother @ciaranjoconnor)

braverangels.org/arthur-brooks-…
With @JonHaidt and my wise and brilliant sister April Lawson:

With @BillKristol

braverangels.org/politics-polar…
With @coldxman

With @cvaldary and @kenbone18

With my new bestie @BridgetPhetasy and my soulful sister @moniguzman

With @ScottAdamsSays, in which I talk entirely too much (but thought great intellectual progress was made):

With @GlennLoury

With Obama White House speechwriter @TSzuplat

braverangels.org/from-obama-to-…
With my long time friend Kim Iversen, who keeps coming back to and leaving Twitter.

And with @larryelder - back in the day:

And can't forget @sallykohn

braverangels.org/sally-kohn-and…
Conversation is a joy unto itself when done right between thoughtful people. But it is also the means by which we lay the communal & psychological groundwork for human progress and discover our deeper relationships to each other and to reality.

I've been blessed in such company.

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An opportunity was lost with the collapse of the #IntellectualDarkWeb. Logic only travels so far in the absence of social trust, and building trust rich social networks across tribes is extremely hard to do.

This is part of what I argued to #SamHarris
We live in an era of echo chambers. I won't listen to your information because I don't trust your sources, because I see them as being ill-motivated and not just potentially wrong.

Wherever you stand on voter fraud, the Covid vaccine (both of which Sam and I get in to...)
...there is a need to sustain the attention of vastly different thinking people on a singular topic where information is being discussed that conflicts with their biases.

Most of us can listen to such information if it is coming from someone whose intentions we trust. If not...
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Nov 2, 2021
Yes!

I detect sarcasm from my friend @fullydavid, but let me address it. Because part of the value in speaking to Dave Rubin was to give me the chance to speak to other things.

I won't tag Rubin here because I don't think it's necessary. Others will do what they will. [1/43]
Here of course is the conversation, for The John Wood Jr. Show, that occasions the subject: [2/43]

Working with @braverangels I and my colleagues constantly disappoint people. Some people like the idea of good faith dialogue and empathy but draw lines as to who should be invited into such spaces. We've gotten backlash for engaging figures like Hawk Newsome, James Comey..[3/43]
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Jun 16, 2021
I enjoyed, was even encouraged, by this conversation between @marclamonthill @ConceptualJames & @peterboghossian on CRT. I highly recommend you watch it.

But I also have to say something about it's aftermath.

This conversation was a victory because it showed an exchange between knowledgeable individuals on both sides of a highly charged topic that clarified differences, tested logical rigor & allowed for further reasoning on the subject.

It did so while maintaining a respect...
...and congeniality that would grant ppl on both sides of the conversation psychological permission to continue exploring in good faith.

These are the circumstances that allow us to learn from one another while also being able to function together socially.

You seldom...
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Apr 20, 2021
Welcoming @tristanharris to the pod in an hour. A man to be admired.

Likewise @coldxman. In their recent convo Coleman makes a point I'd like to drill to the center of everyone's brains.

Generically politically informed people are as bias prone as anyone. More statistics...
...do not reduce tribal impulses that filter such information through its prejudices. Perversely therefore "recommending people get more informed may even exacerbate the problem."

"It's not a problem of intelligence. It's a much deeper problem." He's right.

Now as Tristan...
...points out there are different ways of being informed. It is the polarizing narrative structures (my language) that inform us in ways that inflame our biases and abridges our contextual understanding (most of this is not just flat out lies, though some is).

Long form...
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Oct 8, 2020
So at @braverangels we commissioned a poll from @YouGov to survey American's thoughts about the possibility of violence following a contested election, and the possibility that the election may in fact be rigged.

Thread (1/18)
The poll, and public letter we are circulating that I retweeted above, were covered yesterday in this featured piece from @USATODAY.

Here is the article if you want to read it (2/18):

usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
But in the survey we put forward 3 statements for Republicans, Democrats independents and others to agree or disagree with. (3/18)
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May 28, 2020
From @alexandernaz at Yahoo News (Respectful complaint coming - a thread:)

"Political forecasters believe that the extent and success of recovery from the pandemic, which has so far killed 100,000 Americans and left more than 30 million without jobs..." 1/9
"... will determine whether President Trump holds on to the White House and down ballot Republicans retain their seats. But for Democrats and many of their allies, talk of an economic recovery is premature."

Here is the balanced way a journalist might write that last part: 2/9
'But for Democrats and many of their allies - whose own prospects for retaking the White House and congress would be bolstered by poor economic approval ratings for the President and his Republican allies - talk of an economic recovery is premature."

Why do I write this? 3/9
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