It is important to get out of your echo chamber. It is also important to schedule a healthy bit of time in it.

Why?

Listening to different ideas provides breadth. But ultimately, an idea gains value with its depth.

And this requires an echo chamber.

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Consider tweeting something about arguing for programs to increase women in STEM. The anti-social justice folks will then raise objections to this. You will learn alternative ways of thinking through these objections (breadth). But...

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...you need to have a sense of how these programs can be enacted or how have they been successful. In order words, the idea needs depth, and you can get this in an echo chamber.

I am in an echo chamber this morning, watching a recent Ibram Kendi video...

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...where he is in a space where people agree on social justice goals generally.

He has the freedom to expand his ideas and is then asked practical questions about what he could have written differently, and how his ideas can be implemented.

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As a consequence, I learned a lot from scheduling this time in the echo chamber. I have gained a deeper understanding (depth) of this particular person's ideas.

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