Rollins has his first post dissecting an article up, and my goodness, it is great! He walks through both rhetorical examination (what they wrote and why) as well as some quick tricks to figure out what the connection between the people. That last bit I found especially interesting, as usually I just rely on “Lying people, lying because it is good for them” as a baseline, but Rollins shows how he found out how closely linked everyone was, and more directly that the article from the Atlantic was really a paid for advertisement/press release1. Highly recommended!
That bit might be old news for most people, but I am bad at googling things for some reason, so bad that I worry my brain just works differently than most in a way I don’t understand. I like seeing how competent people utilize search engines the same way I like seeing how people cook something fancy and explain every step and why they do it that way.