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The Power of Strangers, by (and discussion with) Joe Keohane

Thu, May 12

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"The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World-- Joe Keohane sets out on a journey to discover what happens when we bridge the distance between us and people we don’t know."

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The Power of Strangers, by (and discussion with) Joe Keohane
The Power of Strangers, by (and discussion with) Joe Keohane

Time & Location

May 12, 2022, 5:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. EDT

Zoom

About the Event

Jillian discovered this book via this .article

(Amazon)

"In our cities, we stand in silence at the pharmacy and in check-out lines at the grocery store, distracted by our phones, barely acknowledging one another, even as rates of loneliness skyrocket. Online, we retreat into ideological silos reinforced by algorithms designed to serve us only familiar ideas and like-minded users. In our politics, we are increasingly consumed by a fear of people we’ve never met. But what if strangers—so often blamed for our most pressing political, social, and personal problems—are actually the solution? In  Joe Keohane sets out on a journey to discover what happens when we bridge the distance between us and people we don’t know. He learns that while we’re wired to sometimes fear, distrust, and even hate strangers, people and societies that have learned to connect with strangers benefit immensely. Digging into a growing body of cutting-edge research on…

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