Are you considering all of the connections?

November 06, 2024

Everything is connected

Most interesting issues are complicated. It is important to make sure you stop and ask yourself:

Are you considering all of the connections here?

Most of the time it is important to consider that everything is connected - in some cases the connections are obvious, but in other cases it is the subtle connections that are powerful.

Of course there is a danger in seeing the world in this way - conspiracy theories, racism, sexism all misuse this idea. And of course we've considered the important question here in the past:

Are you confusing correlation with causation?
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