{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Paul Truesdell Podcast","title":"Deliberation, Not Debate: A Casual Conversation on Writing Your Story with AI Reflections on Session One of a Four-Part Series","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1981,"description":"Deliberation, Not Debate: A Casual Conversation on Writing Your Story with AIReflections on Session One of a Four-Part SeriesBy Paul TruesdellThis piece is written for those who attended the first session of our four-part series on using artificial intelligence to write your own personal stories. It is also written for the lady who arrived a bit late and missed the handout, for those who could not attend but wish they had, and for anyone considering joining us for session two. Consider this your on-ramp. Consider this your invitation to keep going.— — —One of the things I enjoy most in life, beyond doing the talking myself, is listening. Really listening. Not the kind of listening where you are just waiting for the other person to stop so you can say your piece, but the kind where you are genuinely trying to understand the why behind what someone is telling you.In my world, the why is what we call the qualitative analysis. You have your quantitative side, of course, the facts and figures, the hard numbers. And those numbers tell a powerful story. But sometimes the numbers alone do not tell the full story. You can have a situation where one plus one plainly equals two, and yet the consensus among a great many people will insist the answer is three. No amount of arithmetic will change their minds. You see this all the time in life. Something is objectively, unequivocally wrong, and yet to another group of perfectly reasonable folks, it is just fine. They see it differently, and that is the end of the discussion.That gap between what the numbers say and what people believe is where I like to spend my time. When I teach, when I instruct, when I advise clients on their financial futures, I like to explain the why. I like to walk people through the deliberative process. How did I arrive at this answer? How did I come to this conclusion? What is the common sense path that got us here?— — —The Difference Between Debate and DeliberationOne of the things I see throughout...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/115-XsjkdwCpJ99xv-8oZ76t6jr8ScWEC5MYSKzL0ig/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MTUx/OWRiNTc0NTk0Y2Nk/M2VjYTliMGVhN2Zm/YTZkZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}