#2020 Sensemaking: Separating the Signal from the Noise

#2020 Sensemaking: Separating the Signal from the Noise

Instructor: Don Rossi

We want our news to have high signal and low noise but we find ourselves in a highly polarized political and commercial storm where the truth is either indiscernible or indistinguishable from strategic bias.   The current information ecology has been polluted with five-minute sound bites designed to hijack our attention and with viral memes which inhibit our critical thinking and our ability to make sense of the world. We no longer seek to understand, but to only reinforce highly polarized flimsy positions that have been reinforced by prefabricated echo-chambers. 

The goal of this lecture is to expose the underbelly of the asymmetric information warfare that we face so that we can exit the zero-sum game and enter into a dialectic synthesis that we may discover to be more closely aligned with our neighbors then we might have imagined. 

Don Rossi, MS in Economics and International Business from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was a Senior Program Manager for the Aerospace Division of Honeywell International in Phoenix.  He managed Research and Development programs for current and next generation technology. He is a board certified Six Sigma Black Belt.

Location: Zoom

Tuesday, June 8, 10am

$30 Non-PILLAR Member/$20 PILLAR Member