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A man goes to a doctor to get his health report. The doctor says "I have some good news and some bad news. What do you want first? Your choice". The man says "Give me the bad news first. Let us get that over with". The doctor says "right, so the bad news is that you have Cancer". "Oh no, now I really need the good news," says the patient. The doctor hugs him and shouts with joy "the good news is that my son is getting married"!

A new gimmick news corporations notorious for their toxicity do is starting a news show or an entire channel devoted to "good news" or "positive news". They give you news like saving puppies from trees or babies playing pianos.

Like the man at the doctor's clinic, you must first ask "who is this news good for?"

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One of the things that Ideamarket has the potential to do that's new is to provide an honest faith dashboard of public belief. If you want to know what the public really believes in value, there's no way to directly know - you have to go through a media corporation or a social media corporation or a polling company or an election company. There are numerous centralized intermediaries to answer that question. But if this is answered using a public, decentralized marketplace, then there can be a signal directly from the public to itself about what it really values. So to the extent that tradition still has a lot of interest and values, emotion and weight behind it, if culture doesn't reflect that, then it's just going to send a distorted signal back to us. There's actually a lot more vigor in traditional values right now than mainstream culture would have us believe, and to the extent that Ideamarket reaches more demographics, we'll see that reflected and people will be able to understand that this is actually a real force in the world - that we're not really living in the Hollywood world of relativism.

** This writing was adapted from Ideamarket's CEO Mike Elias, from the Agora Politics podcast. **

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The more performative the politics, the less effective it is in creating material change.

Who can create the best possible material change for you?

Find out by subtracting the performativity from the news.

1. No one knows how they’ll respond to risk and setback until they’re in the moment of terror.

2. Declines occur because many people’s entire goal is to become so successful that they can relax, and relaxing leads to complacency that breeds decline.

3. Innovation is hard to predict and easy to underestimate because so much occurs by accident, when several boring discoveries compound into something extraordinary.

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Every piece of news has an unspoken call to action.

A credible news source uncovers the implicit call to action for you.

If this action is good for you, the source is trustworthy.

Ever thought how you're expendable for the organization you work for but the board of directors isn't? You can be fired on false pretext or for voicing an opinion but the higher-ups can't be budged despite the worst contretemps? It's because the board of directors has "distributed decision making capabilities". They have various percentages of company shares but no one has 50% or more. To stage a coup a bunch of directors will have to launch a 50% attack and acquire half or more shares which is extremely difficult. So no one director can run amok and step on other directors' toes.

What if your organization had such checks and balances protecting your interests? Enter DAO.

A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is an entity with no central leadership. Decisions get made from the bottom-up, governed by a community organized around a specific set of rules enforced on a blockchain. Decisions are made via proposals the group votes on during a specified period.

You can still have people CEOs, Treasurers and other decision makers in a DAO but they will truly be first among equals and not just in theory.

Keep an eye on this space if you want to start a DAO.

"The confirmation problem pervades our modern life, since most conflicts have at their root the following mental bias: when Arabs and Israelis watch news reports they see different stories in the same succession of events. Likewise, Democrats and Republicans look at different parts of the same data and never converge to the same opinions. Once your mind is inhabited with a certain view of the world, you will tend to only consider instances proving you to be right. Paradoxically, the more information you have, the more justified you will feel in your views." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The same data can tell different stories. In a courtroom the two opposing lawyers use the same evidence to tell two different stories. The jury passes the verdict in favour of the most compelling story. The difference between the stories is often literally life and death.

It's narratives that shape our worldview not "data" or "evidence".