How to get 7th graders to smoke - by Adam Mastroianni
experimental-history.com/p/how-to-get-7th-graders-to-smokeOR: "fuzzy, wet, and unfalsifiable"
Occupational Personality Profiles
apps.psych.ut.ee/JobProfiles/Personality trait profiles of over 250 jobs based on a study of over 70,000 people
Undersociality: miscalibrated social cognition can inhibit social connection
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661322000432A personâs well-being depends heavily on forming and maintaining positive relationships, but people can be reluctant to connect in ways that would creâ¦
Be a thermostat, not a thermometer | Lara Hogan
larahogan.me/blog/be-a-thermostat-not-a-thermometer/As I’ve learned more about how humans interact with one another at work, I’ve been repeatedly reminded that we are very easily influenced by the mood of those around us. It’s usually not even something we do consciously; we just see someone using a different tone of voice or shifting their body language, and something deep in our brain notices it.
The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Entirely Understand
reactormag.com/the-joy-of-reading-books-you-dont-entirely-understand/It really should be acceptable and normal to say “I don’t entirely understand what I just read, but I loved it.”
The Power of Small Wins
hbr.org/2011/05/the-power-of-small-winsReprint: R1105C What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. In an analysis of knowledge workers’ diaries, the authors found that nothing contributed more to a positive inner work life (the mix of emotions, motivations, and perceptions that is critical to performance) than making progress in meaningful work. If a person is motivated and happy at the end of the workday, it’s a good bet that he or she achieved something, however small. If the person drags out of the office disengaged and joyless, a setback is likely to blame. This progress principle suggests that managers have more influence than they may realize over employees’ well-being, motivation, and creative output. The key is to learn which actions support progress—such as setting clear goals, providing sufficient time and resources, and offering recognition—and which have the opposite effect. Even small wins can boost inner work life tremendously. On the flip side, small losses or setbacks can have an extremely negative effect. And the work doesn’t need to involve curing cancer in order to be meaningful. It simply must matter to the person doing it. The actions that set in motion the positive feedback loop between progress and inner work life may sound like Management 101, but it takes discipline to establish new habits. The authors provide a checklist that managers can use on a daily basis to monitor their progress-enhancing behaviors.
What to Do with Climate Emotions
newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/what-to-do-with-climate-emotionsIf the goal is to insure that the planet remains habitable, what is the right degree of panic, and how do you bear it?
The Art and Science of Spending Money · Collab Fund
collabfund.com/blog/the-art-and-science-of-spending-money/Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch once nearly died of a heart attack.
The Dangers of Elite Projection
humantransit.org/2017/07/the-dangers-of-elite-projection.html(Leer en español aquí.) Elite projection is the belief, among relatively fortunate and influential people, that what those people find convenient or attractive is good for the society as a whole. Once you learn to recognize this simple mistake, you see it everywhere. It is perhaps the single most comprehensive barrier to prosperous, just, and […]
We don’t have a hundred biases, we have the wrong model
worksinprogress.co/issue/biases-the-wrong-model/Behavioral economics has identified dozens of cognitive biases that stop us from acting 'rationally'. But instead of building up a messier and messier picture of human behavior, we need a new model.
The productivity tax you pay for context switching
async.twist.com/context-switching/How distraction became our default way of working and what you can do to reclaim your focus