Episode #4: Jamie Joyce

Jamie Joyce is the founder of the non-profit Society Library, and oversees related projects such as the Great American Debate and Internet Government. She works on crafting decision making models, building data bases that contain arguments, claims, and evidence from every point of view, and has experience writing legislation. In this episode of MIP, Ryan and Jamie discuss what the society library project is about, ideology vs worldview, interpretative wars over an ideologies meaning (i.e. CRT), translating between different ideologies to maximize understanding, emotional resonance and empathy in political sensemaking, addressing selection and availability bias, the long term vision of society library and the future of knowledge, meta-diplomacy and depolarization, the issue of competing values, Ryan’s 3 “mans” in sensemaking processes, ethical considerations in this work, tips for effective media and news consumption, divorcing opinion from identity, Ryan’s mindmap technique for dialogue, and rebuilding trust at individual and institutional levels.