I just heard this quote from a Howard Stern interview of Katie Perry: "Gossip and lies take the elevator and move at the speed of an elevator while truth takes the stairs." How true is that with fake news and false data too? Truth, transparency and trust are slower to accept and see and acknowledge. They arrive behind the lies. Bad data, inaccuracies and untruths spread fast and rise like an elevator: quickly. How bad. How sad. We need to get truth, as it relates to COVID and the economy and cybersecurity and drug responses and racial tensions, faster. Otherwise, how can we actually solve the deep problems we confront? …see more