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This paper has been on my mind for 5 years. Analyzing 1.6k novels, it argues that there are six basic arcs for stories: 1/31 Rags to Riches (rise)2 Riches to
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Thing are feeling pretty uncertain right now, so lets talk about a tool that was designed by psychologists for therapy, adopted by intelligence analysts to predict enemy actions, and which
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Constraints breed innovation and creativity, so here is a thread of things that are also, impossibly and arbitrarily, other things - basically, classic hacks.This single tweet from @alokmenghrajani contains code
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Ender's Game/Last Starfighter were right: video game performance shows real skills:Good Civilization players have better management skillsPerformance in MOBAs like Dota correlates with IQGuild leaders in World of Warcraft are
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Great ideas are not always cutting-edge. Let’s talk about technologies that were invented weirdly late, for example: We put a human on the moon years BEFORE anyone successfully added wheels
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A paper I think about all the time: In an experiment where people are asked to sit quietly for 15 minutes & enjoy their thoughts or else self-administer 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰
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Avoid jerks; civility wins in organizations. If you're civil, your coworkers are 59% more likely to share info, employees work 71% harder, and health and well-being receive boosts, too! This
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How do you get people to listen to experts? Non-experts often think they know best, but this experiment shows that if you first ask them to explain how something works
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So chess is having a moment thanks to the Queen’s Gambit (see the chart from @DataIsBeautiful). It is also a subject of a lot of social science research. So, a
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As everyone is refreshing their feed to get news that is quickly out of date, let’s talk about what we can learn from the complete OPPOSITE of ephemeral tweets- how
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Management researchers are beginning to publish the first papers of the effect of COVID on companies & work. I want to highlight some of the most interesting findings from multiple
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To get out of the COVID downturn, & prevent the next pandemic, we are going to need innovation & entrepreneurship. The bad news is that both were stalling long before
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