TLDR: Almost all economic increases come from change and so profit maximalism demands a world where everything changes, all of the time. But change has a cost for individuals and communities; be cautious, in yourself and your designs. Recently, I was introduced to the Benedictine ‘Vow of Stability’: a promise that, upon entering a monastic […]
TLDR: Learning is not a smooth curve; we frequently grow in spurts and jumps. But those rarely align with external validation like graduation or licensing. Credentialism isn’t just inequitable, it is a business and cultural liability. And there is a market opportunity in refusing to accept the bias. Recently, there has been a trend in […]
TLDR: Even if our processes buffer us from academic misconduct, we still need to be conscious of both the practices and people that we platform. Above all else, we must be applied, behavioral, and scientific. Yesterday on BlueSky, Neil Lewis Jr. pointed out the latest Atlantic article by Daniel Engber on academic misconduct in behavioral […]
TLDR: Narrow misses feel worse than wide ones because it is easier to imagine all the things that might have gone differently. But regret is a red herring; a near miss is an almost win and needs an “ante vitam” meeting. _ Imagine that you’re late for your train in two parallel universes. In one […]
For the last several years, I have been making myself available for free, first-come-first-served meetings in the style of academic office hours. They’re 30 minutes, 1:1, virtual, and guided by the participant on topics ranging from career advice to applied behavioral science. And they’re specifically designed to address the inequities inherent in gatekeeping culture. I’m […]
(This is a post primarily about the results of an experiment, but I did build a tool as part of it that you can use to gather behavioral feedback from former coworkers; you can go directly to WorkWithMeAgain.com to use it for free without reading about the journey or my data.) In 2020, I started […]
For the last several years, I have been making myself available for free, first-come-first-served meetings that I call office hours. They’re 30 minute 1:1 virtual meetings, guided by the participant, on topics ranging from career advice to applied behavioral science. And they’re motivated by the belief that when we require introductions or other forms of […]
Humans are habituation machines. Once something becomes true for us, our brain starts incorporating it into our reality through selective attention and a variety of other cognitive biases, such that it is hard to remember a time when it wasn’t true. Take the internet. If you’re old enough, you might be able to dredge out […]