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Both in my academic and industry work, I work a lot on crowdsourcing answers, as multiple sources of information are inevitably going to lead to better conclusions. Â The key to good crowdsourcing is not the volume of people, but the diversity of people in any dataset (e.g. this paper). Â David Blankenhorn, of the Better Angels initiative, applies this same logic to improving policy through diversity of political thought.
The more I was able to productively disagree with people, the more I realized that I didn’t need them to agree with me in order for me to be okay. I found strength and peace in myself that left me feeling more empowered, even when the world felt scary and out of control.
The civic philosophies of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. echo in the work of Braver Angels.
If in the midst of this tragedy, the people of Los Angeles, and all America for that matter, are given cause to remember how precious we are to one another, then something will have been gained in this.
