On-Kilter is meant to arm people with immediately actionable advice for info Armageddon.
Our core toolkit has six tiers, divided by the amount of effort needed to use the advice. At the lowest tiers, learn how to be low-engagement without ever being part of the problem. At the middle tiers, learn to confidently navigate an environment of information, misinformation, and missing information. At the highest levels, learn successfully used methods to start up hard conversations with people who seem to inhabit a totally different reality.
We will be publishing the core toolkit over the next few months, along with lots of practice examples. Up to and around that, we will be publishing commentary from our team: this will range from background on how the toolkit came to be and how it was battle-tested, to more 'thinking out loud' conversations about information processing.
The goal is to provide a calm, confidence-building space. If we succeed in lowering your stress around taking in information, that is fantastic. If we can make you into a roaming mental fortress fit to handle the roughest of information hellscapes, even better.
Who we are:
On-Kilter is a small team, offering advice that MUST self-justify in order to be useful. So we will be writing under obvious pseudonyms, and withholding any information that might speak to credentials. (If it helps you to imagine that we have extensive educational backgrounds, many certifications, and long careers in relevant fields...go right ahead.)
Fortitude Dangersmith (aka Ford) writes the main Substack. Promise Rightway runs the social accounts, and manages infrastructure. Verity Linktracer will provide all citations.