About the podcast

We’re surrounded by signs, signals, and portents, and drowning in a sea of information.

Understanding how we form our beliefs about the world helps us make better decisions and live better lives.

While there are many bad actors out there, vying for our attention, there are others who 'collate' useful information to genuinely inform, educate and support society.

  There are professions that turn the noise of the world into something that others can act upon.

Scientists, historians, journalists, but also doctors, analysts, detectives, and many more.

Their processes differ, their languages and their pressures, but they all collate fragments of reality to try to assemble a picture that’s useful, credible, and true enough to stand on. 

 “The Collators” is a series about the shared craft of collation: the art and discipline of making sense of the world. 

We explore how knowledge is gathered, filtered, and framed; how uncertainty becomes judgment; and how those who work in uncertainty can teach us all in our daily lives how to better make sense of our own worlds.