I am the Voice-Of-Reason

I am the Voice-Of-Reason,... at least I do my best to be.

Here is my intro post. So here's a little about myself and what I want to do on Steemit.

I am well educated (think Ph.D. level). I don't want to state my degrees because I want to promote the idea of 'judge the idea not the person'. I have seen the use of authority garnered by amassing a list of degrees and credentials to intellectually bully others. I only mention my education to indicate what the tone of my blog will be and what topics I will be covering. Please, judge me on the basis of my ideas, not my ideas on the basis of me.

I have worked at a small think tank as a policy analyst. I worked on complex topics using all of the latest analytical and statistical methods. I know how to detect poor arguments, incomplete arguments, and out right deception. How to do this is one of the things that I want to pass on to my followers. I see so many people supporting policies that are damaging not only to themselves but to the country as a whole. I see so many people buying products that are worthless or at least heavily over priced. I see so many people being manipulated in general, usually by fear. At the end of the day I want to give those people a fighting chance to avoid these pitfalls. I want to pass on the confidence to think for yourself and some reasoning techniques to come to conclusions that justify that confidence.

I want to do this in the form of a blog. I want to cover political topics and current events. I plan to start with a series of articles on the technology of privacy. I will examine how technology is being used to monitor people's online activities and what can be done to limit the abilities of the government and companies to monitor. I will examine topics including search engines, webmail, online storage, cloud services, expectations of privacy and oh yeah crypto-currencies and block-chain technology. I have been wanting to research these topics for a while for myself. Now I am going to put it in to a blog to spur myself on to get it done.

So, follow The Voice-Of-Reason for logical and rational analysis of meaningful topics.