How do you connect the dots in the news?
To connect the dots, ask four questions of any headline: who made the decision behind it, what they control, how the effect travels across borders and markets, and where it lands in your own life. Then name the next observable event that would confirm or break the connection. Dots connected this way become a decision you can act on.
Who decided, and why?
Every event is the output of someone's decision and their incentives. Naming the decision maker is the first dot.
How does the effect travel?
Through prices, rules, supply chains, currencies and institutions. Mateo checks what is actually in the ground. Amara checks what has to work.
Where does it land for you?
Translate the event into your budget, home, work and plans. Marcus asks what it changes in his actual budget.
What would prove the connection wrong?
Name the next observable event. If it does not happen, the connection was wrong, and the decision should be revisited.