“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.” ― John Naisbitt

A letter from 2020…. These are hard times, in many ways, this has happened before, but the context has never been the same. We are experiencing this pandemic in a world that feels tiny and we are aware of the things that happen in our city as well as all the way on the other side of the world.

About a month in, I recognized the need to stop trying to be on top of the news, all kinds of news, from all kinds of sources, it takes a toll in our mental health and our energy levels. I couldn’t have worded it better than the newest episode of “Coronavirus, explained” (a must watch on Netflix), we need to create a strategy of how we are going to receive the news.

It seems like a simple concept, but we really need to look at information as a wave that is coming our way, all at once, will do no good. There are way too many unreliable sources out there, there are fear campaigns, there are people trying to create chaos and use it to their advantage. Data is only data, until it tells a story and we need to be really careful about the stories we tell.

We need to trust and rely on scientific sources, and scientists need to look at data in an unbiased way, looking for the truth and telling stories that are useful to mankind.