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Overarching Question: Which is more important, content or connection?

Big ideas:

• Peter Block -- "Connection is the Content"
• content and connection as an infinity loop
• different types of connection -- to ideas, to others, and oneself
• relationship and communication interact with another
• trust cannot be built without connection
• delivering content with trust doesn't lead to integration
• we relate to content differently when there is time for connection
• you can't just throw content at people and expect them to learn
• it's hard to measure effectiveness in adult learning
• video courses have low completion rates because they miss the social aspect
• diverse groups provide perspective shifts that we can't get alone
• content can come easily from AI these days
• "Leave people changed, not just informed." -- Informed is the content piece, changed is the connection piece
• Perspectival knowing -- creating knowing that shifts your perspective
• knowledge needs context to be meaningful
• reading has become the exception to doomscrolling
• reading keeps people engaged in a topic over a long period of time
• when you connect with the content you're more engaged and motivated
• content in itself is useless without the connection piece
• shelf development -- when the knowledge/change stays on the shelf
• without trust you can't connect, without connection you can't trust - a feedback loop
• If a leader embodies the "connection is the content" idea, what does that mean for them?
• connection embedded into all the content
• a process doesn't necessarily create the connection
• breakout rooms are a structure that facilitate connection
• put people into breakout rooms as they arrive to simulate the slow entering into a live space
• content without connection is information
• content is embedded in the conversation -- people are a source of content too

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