To fight bullshit in your life, what you need most is what Ernest Hemingway called a «built-in, shock-proof shit detector». Something inside of you that makes the alarm go off immediately: Bullshit! Bullshit! A signal to bridge the noise. A Geiger-counter for nonsense.
You can train that detector like a muscle, just like you can train taste: Inhale goodness.
Read good books, thought-through, well-arranged words with a beginning, a middle and an end. Consume information from trustworthy sources.
But most of all: Surround yourself with good people. Smart, openminded, outspoken, heartful humans. Just like the ones I met tonight at the informal 60pages-meet-up in Zurich. We talked about all the relevant things. Not being a monster-like parent. What architecture and journalism have in common. Our next meet-up in Beirut.
Talk more to good people. It helps.
(Oh, and thank you David for this evening. We should do this 60 nights in a row.)