When SARS-CoV-2 first began spreading in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Americans to not wear masks.
In March 2020, Zeynep Tufekci, challenged that recommendation in a viral tweet that she expanded into one of the most influential opinion pieces ever written for the New York Times.
Her writing is precise and to the point. A pleasure to read.
Here is how she presents her newsletter Insight, that I receive regularly in my inbox and greatly enjoy:
" Insight is a newsletter for people interested in thinking deeply about the world’s hardest, most complex and vital puzzles. It’s about the interaction between technology and society, the impacts of the transitions flowing through the globe but also about the pandemic that’s transforming the world.
A place for complicated, in-depth discussions that don’t constantly hedge and hem-and-haw defensively but also don’t undersell the uncertainty. Discussions that are practical in their orientation but honest in acknowledging ambiguity and unknowns about the world’s massive challenges. Discussions that treat the reader as a partner in think
Insight is about the thinking we can do at the intersections between disciplines and methods, bringing together the science and the technology, people and society, recognizing the complexity and ambiguity of it all. "
Zeynep Tufekci is a sociologist at the University of North Carolina.
She’s the author of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. She writes for the New York Times and The Atlantic and has appeared on TedTalk.
In the past, she has been a columnist at Wired and Scientific American. She can also be followed on twitter.
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