The Power of Staying Informed with Kira Shishkin

Is the news manipulating your emotions? If so, how, and… why? Is there a better way to stay up to date with the latest headlines without feeling powerless, angry, and fearful?

In this episode of The David Andrew Wiebe Show, David interviews Kira Shishkin, founder of informed.now, the leading news-by-SMS research and delivery service in North America. In this conversation, Kira shares about DJing, the problem informed.now was intended to solve, an accident that nearly took his life, and more.

In This Episode:

What it means to be a DJ, according to Kira

How music production has become more automated

Why Kira believes being a DJ is about helping people discover music they didn’t know they needed

Why being creative doesn’t always translate to being popular

Why Kira is disrupting sensationalized, uncredible news

The truth about news, propaganda, and the media slant

What Kira noticed about a delusional 70s movie

What Kira believes the pandemic revealed about our unpreparedness

Why you have no choice but to pay attention to our increasingly globalized world