A Tale of Two Ideas

Mark Skelton
Nov 3 · 5 min read
A sticky note with a light bulb drawn on it pinned to a bulletin board.
A sticky note with a light bulb drawn on it pinned to a bulletin board.
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Every day, we encounter ideas and viewpoints that affect our lives in one way or another. Sometimes we agree with the ideas we hear, other times we disagree, and many times we aren’t immediately sure if we agree or disagree with the ideas we encounter. The challenge we face is discerning which ideas are true and which are false.

While ideas come from a variety of sources, by far the easiest example of opposing ideas is politics…

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Mark Skelton

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Full stack developer at Widen Enterprises in Madison, WI working with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Java.

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