Infinite Lunchbox

How do we cover the communications of a White House that has little allegiance to truth? Especially in the context of a public health crisis, when lies can be fatal? Get ready for some *post-truth jujitsu*.

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Show Notes: • Jay Rosen on an "emergency setting" and tactic #3: The Truth Sandwich: https://pressthink.org/2020/03/today-we-switch-our-coverage-of-donald-trump-to-an-emergency-setting/ • Dan Froomkin on tactic #1: Live Fact-Checking: https://presswatchers.org/2020/03/how-to-turn-trumps-daily-virus-misinformation-show-into-a-vector-for-the-truth/ • Matt Yglesias on Trump being a master showman: https://www.vox.com/2020/3/23/21190362/trump-daily-coronavirus-briefing-fox-cnn-msnbc • Jay Rosen on tactic #10: The Interns: https://pressthink.org/2018/06/its-time-for-the-press-to-suspend-normal-relations-with-the-trump-presidency/

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At the Infinite Lunchbox, we don't just make sense of this moment. We also make *lemonade*. And in that spirit, let's savor 10 political-yet-hopeful things that can give us faith in our capacity to navigate the pandemic.

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Show Notes: • The Redemption Project • Nanette • The Leadership LAB & Los Angeles LGBT Center's Leadership Treatment (scroll to 7:30) • This American Life's reconsideration of the LGBT Center's story • Israeli social science experiment • The Against Violent Extremism Network • Footsteps • Reckonings episode #17 featuring Jerry Taylor • Japan's rent-a-family industry • Antanas Mockus • ContraPoints • Mistress Velvet • #solidarityat8 in Chicago

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Science is amazing at building public consensus……except when it's not. Think science on climate change, vaccines, and coronavirus. In these circumstances, the stakes and uncertainty are so high, that normal peer-reviewed science fails to reach public consensus. But if not normal science, what type of science can we use? Introducing *post-normal science*.

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Show Notes: • Post-Normal Science • Infinite Lunchbox episode on Integral Theory & Strategy • Opendemic self-reporting app

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How did we get so tribal? And where did Trump come from?! There have been a gazillion attempted answers to those questions, and this episode, the Infinite Lunchbox offers a fresh one -- from the perspective of the evolution of *human consciousness*. You thought Maslow's hierarchy was good? Buckle up for the Spiral Dynamics of Consciousness.

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Show Notes: • Spiral Dynamics: https://www.cruxcatalyst.com/wp-content/uploads/spiral-dynamic-image.jpg • Rebel Wisdom's Alexander Beiner on the 'flawed' notion of the Intellectual Deep Web: https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom/a-story-to-bind-us-the-intellectual-deep-web-and-a-new-grand-narrative-9b32e36857c3

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Why do we suddenly love New York Governor Andrew Cuomo? Perhaps because effective leadership is suited to its circumstances, and Cuomo's leadership style is uniquely suited to our public health crisis? In this episode of the Infinite Lunchbox, we get a fresh take on leadership in times of crisis, and strategy in times of change -- aka *integral strategy*.

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Show Notes: • Ken Wilber's A Theory of Everything • Daniel Goleman's leadership matrix

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Welcome to the Infinite Lunchbox, where we're making sense of (and lemonade with) this moment. SWEET. And….what does that actually mean?

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