The truth is worth more than your agenda

The past year has opened my eyes to a lot of things. What I’m noticing more and more, particularly on social media, is people that share stories that fit their agenda with literally no concern about the facts. It gets worse when the facts become clear, yet they double down.

I see it happen more often than it should.

• Post: “Person x said this horrible thing.”
• Comment on the post: “No, they didn’t. Here’s the actual quote.”
• Original post: “Maybe so, but you can imagine them saying it and we’re heading for bad things!”

There are psychological reasons behind defending your past words, even if they’re incorrect, but that’s beyond the scope of my knowledge. My push is to simply encourage you to reach for the truth, even if you don’t like it.

Matt Lauer

When Matt Lauer’s sexual harassment allegations surfaced a few years ago, one of the shocking pieces was that he had a button under his desk to lock the door remotely and it seems he made very illicit use of that button.

Somehow his name came up in conversation recently, and I mentioned the door lock and how awful it was. I was quickly corrected by someone who accurately pointed out that many of the staff at NBC had a similar lock, and they were…