Our Practices
Foundational practices for embodying and expressing The Experience of We
Navigating Information Together
A quick start guide
We consume more information in a single day than our ancestors encountered in a year. And we come away feeling less clear than when we started.
Something about what we just consumed felt like understanding, but it didn't land in the body. It didn't settle. It didn't nourish. It moved through us the way processed sugar moves through the bloodstream: a spike, a crash, and a craving for more.
The modern information ecology has been engineered for engagement, not understanding. Headlines provoke rather than inform. Algorithms serve what keeps us looking, not what helps us know.
This matters for relationships because different information streams can pull two people toward different realities. When we consume different media and absorb different narratives, we begin to inhabit different worlds while sharing the same home. The ground of shared reality erodes quietly.
This practice is about developing shared discernment. Not by declaring what's true. By building shared awareness of how the information ecology works and what it does to us.
One practice to try
Think of a person in your life who’s open to experimentation, and invite them into trying something new with you.
The source check-in
The next time one of you shares a piece of information, a news story, or a claim that shapes how you're seeing the world, pause and explore it together.
Ask: “Where did this come from?” Not as a challenge. As genuine curiosity. What was the source? How did it reach you?
Ask: “How does it land in the body?” Does it feel like genuine understanding or like stimulation? Does it settle or agitate?
Ask: “What does it want from us?” Good information illuminates. Engineered content provokes. Notice which you're holding.
Compare notes. Are you both consuming similar streams? Different ones? What happens when you look at the same story from both vantage points?
Decide together what to do with it. Let it go? Investigate further? Let it inform your thinking? The point is shared discernment, not individual consumption.
One shared moment of discernment about one piece of information. That's the beginning of navigating this ecology as a team.
The full guide, Navigating Information Together, has several practices for developing shared discernment: recognizing the difference between nourishing information and stimulating content; protecting shared reality from algorithmic fragmentation; building information practices that serve understanding; navigating the AI-generated content landscape; and more. It names the ecology honestly and offers relational tools for moving through it together.
Shared discernment. That's what we're building. Together.
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