One of the fun things that people with a strong point of view do is they "surf" it against the river of news.
Here's a kayaker surfing a static wave on a river:
The river of news is ever-changing; the expert's point of view remains constant, and the interplay between the two can be interesting if the expert's POV is relevant to us.
Here's a recent example from Jennifer Pahlka: https://www.eatingpolicy.com/p/outcomes-reviews-realigning-legislative:
In the state capacity framework that underpins my work (and the work of the Recoding America Fund), it’s the fourth competency that confuses people. It makes sense that government needs the right people, focused on the right work, with purpose-fit systems (competencies 1, 2, and 3), so it naturally follows that we need civil service reform, procedural reform, and reform of how we build and buy technology. But when we say that it needs to operate in test-and-learn frameworks, brows wrinkle. For some, this evokes the practices of digital teams who employ build-measure-learn cycles as they implement interfaces to government programs. But test-and-learn isn’t limited to implementation – the point is that the whole system, from writing law to how programs operate, and everything in between, needs to constantly adjust based on accurate feedback about what’s working. So what do we really mean here?
An experiment out of the California legislature may provide an illustrative example.
The surfing then begins. She uses a thing happening in current events to elaborate on something she things is important -- an idea that she advocates for. That's how I define point of view.
BTW, Jennifer Pahlka may have the best SEO game I've ever seen. Certainly some of that comes from a unique last name spelling cutting down on competition, but the rest of it comes from staying on-topic for a long time. Check this out:
