{"id":20853,"date":"2025-11-15T09:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/dont-argue-with-strangers-and-11-more-rules-to-survive-the-information-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:37:27","slug":"dont-argue-with-strangers-and-11-more-rules-to-survive-the-information-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/dont-argue-with-strangers-and-11-more-rules-to-survive-the-information-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t argue with strangers\u2026 and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling overwhelmed by divisive opinions, endless rows and unreliable facts? Here\u2019s how to weather the data storm<\/p>\n<p>We all live in history. A lot of the problems that face us, and the opportunities that present themselves, are defined not by our own choices or even the specific place or government we\u2019re living under, but by the particular epoch of human events that our lives happen to coincide with.<\/p>\n<p>The Industrial Revolution, for example, presented opportunities for certain kinds of business success \u2013 it made some people very rich while others were exploited. If you\u2019d known that was the name of your era, it would have given you a clue about what kinds of events to prepare for. So I\u2019m suggesting a name for the era we\u2019re living through: the Information Crisis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/nov\/15\/dont-argue-with-strangers-and-11-more-rules-to-survive-the-information-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c95c92b5b32373a2c20c116916cc784405c239c6\/0_0_2953_2362\/master\/2953.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d2a00c241f7d8a122ff39a0b3decfedb\" title=\"Don\u2019t argue with strangers\u2026 and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis\" \/>Feeling overwhelmed by divisive opinions, endless rows and unreliable facts? Here\u2019s how to weather the data storm<br \/>\nWe all live in history. A lot of the problems that face us, and the opportunities that present themselves, are defined not by our own choices or even the specific place or government we\u2019re living under, but by the particular epoch of human events that our lives happen to coincide with.<br \/>\nThe Industrial Revolution, for example, presented opportunities for certain kinds of business success \u2013 it made some people very rich while others were exploited. If you\u2019d known that was the name of your era, it would have given you a clue about what kinds of events to prepare for. So I\u2019m suggesting a name for the era we\u2019re living through: the Information Crisis. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling overwhelmed by divisive opinions, endless rows and unreliable facts? Here\u2019s how to weather the data storm We all live in history. A lot of the problems that face us, and the opportunities that present themselves, are defined not by our own choices or even the specific place or government we\u2019re living under, but by &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/15\/dont-argue-with-strangers-and-11-more-rules-to-survive-the-information-crisis\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don\u2019t argue with strangers\u2026 and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}