How To Be Influenced

Why we need to take control of our influences and what we can learn from artists about how to do so

 
Man, sometimes it takes a long time to sound like yourself.
Miles Davis.

The reason this newsletter has the silly name it does is that I started it in part as a place to share arguments and ideas in rough form, without having to worry about refining them. In practice, I do worry – believe it or not – but today’s post is very much in that original spirit. It’s maybe half an idea for something longer, more likely it’s nothing at all, but it’s a thought that keeps returning to me, like an ear-worm. By sketching it out here and seeing what you all think, maybe I’ll be able to get rid of it.

Here’s the thought.

We live in age of social influence, and while there is no shortage of advice on how to take advantage of that – how to influence others, how to build a following, how to change minds – there is a dearth of thinking on how to be influenced. Which is odd, because that seems, to me, to be one of the key questions of the age.

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