“Hot Letters” – Social Media Lessons from Abraham Lincoln
How many times do you regret posting what you put on social media, and contemplated whether you could be adding fuel to the fires of misinformation/disinformation?
We have unfortunately, as the New York Times described it in 2014, lost the “art of the unsent angry letter”, as President Lincoln had mastered himself more than 150 years ago. In 2021, Niklas Göke wrote a really good synopsis and analysis of Konnikova’s piece on Lincoln’s Hot Letters, for the Times:
The idea is t…
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