Welcome to the Let’s Make Sense Project. This project promotes tools and strategies we can adopt to make better sense of the information we consume and share. Our focus is to help people separate the signal from the noise in the modern information environment and to foster more constructive and inclusive dialogue across cultural divides. Our goal is to combat disinformation and reduce polarisation.
How to Fight Information Pollution
In this age of polarisation, disinformation and fake news, never before has it been so important that we carefully and thoughtfully evaluate the information we consume before we share it…
How to Identify Your Cognitive Biases & Allergies
This essay is the second in a short series about taking personal responsibility for improving the quality of the content circulating in the information environment. In essay one, ‘How to Fight Information Pollution’…
How to Spot a Tribal Culture Warrior
This is the third article in a short series on cleaning up the information environment. Part one can be found here, How to Fight Information Pollution, and part two here, ‘How to Identify Your Cognitive Biases & Allergies’.
How to Spot Pseudoscience
In this complex information age, distinguishing between rigorous scientific fact and veiled pseudoscience is a pressing challenge. In the vein of my previous writings on information pollution and cognitive biases…
The 3Cs of Misinformation Circulation: Conspiracists, Contrarians, and the Credulous
In Part 5 of The Parrhesia Diaries ‘Let’s Make Sense Project’ series of blogs, we will consider how, in this digital age, the rapid spread of information is paralleled by an increase in misinformation permeating society.
The Parrhesia Diaries 