Political coherence and certainty as drivers of interpersonal liking over and above similarity
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.abk1909 People with “pure ideology and full of conviction” are attractive, especially to ambivalent people. Affective polarization and political segregation have become a serious threat to democratic societies. One standard explanation for these phenomena is that people like and prefer interacting with similar others. However, similarity may not be the...
The company-building conrnerstones every founder needs to focus on - Advice from HubSpot's Dharmesh Shah
https://review.firstround.com/the-company-building-cornerstones-every-founder-needs-to-focus-on-advice-from-hubspots-dharmesh-shah Cornerstone #1: Choosing a co-founder. Shah has strict directives to approach your co-founder assessment with as much rigor as you give to evaluating your startup ideas. His advice? Have the hard conversations now, rather than using a more lackadaisical, wait-and-see approach. In our personal relationships, you’ll often date for...
A 680,000-person megastudy of nudges to encourage vaccination in pharmacies
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2115126119 Encouraging vaccination is a pressing policy problem. To assess whether text-based reminders can encourage pharmacy vaccination and what kinds of messages work best, we conducted a megastudy. We randomly assigned 689,693 Walmart pharmacy patients to receive one of 22 different text reminders using a variety of different behavioral science...
Everything gets a package: My python data science setup
https://www.ethanrosenthal.com/2022/02/01/everything-gets-a-package/ I used GitHub as the place to store my code and notebooks. Data all lived in cloud storage. A python package for my code held all of the python dependencies. It turn out, being forced to make your code portable is the same thing as requiring reproducibility in building...
The durability formula - How it will determine your startup's future value
https://www.nfx.com/post/durability-formula-will-determine-your-startups-future-value Nearly all of the value in technology companies is created in the out-years, long after you start. But you can only capture the value in the long term if you design for durability from day one. There are five main factors that build lasting power for startups. Durability =...
Preferences predict who commits crime among young men
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2112645119 Understanding who commits crime and why is a key topic in social science and important for the design of crime prevention policy. In theory, people who commit crime face different social and economic incentives for criminal activity than other people, or they evaluate the costs and benefits of crime...
Rewarding cognitive effort increases the intrinsic value of mental labor
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2111785119 Current models of mental effort in psychology, behavioral economics, and cognitive neuroscience typically suggest that exerting cognitive effort is aversive, and people avoid it whenever possible. The aim of this research was to challenge this view and show that people can learn to value and seek effort intrinsically. Our...
Don't forget Microsoft
https://luttig.substack.com/p/dont-forget-microsoft Despite its scale, Microsoft is one of the most overlooked companies in tech. But there is a lot more to Microsoft than meets the eye. If it plays its cards right, Microsoft can become the first $10T company. And startup founders would be wise to learn from the behemoth...
You probably shouldn’t work at a startup
https://www.producthunt.com/stories/you-probably-shouldn-t-work-at-a-startup The basic proposition is this: “we raised a lot of venture capital and plan on becoming an enormous company. Join us, take a haircut on salary, but earn way more in the future in the form of equity.” <-> You probably shouldn’t work for a startup. So how can...
10년 경력을 설계하는 방법
http://channy.creation.net/blog/1517 어떻게 10년을 한 가지 일에만 몰두 할 수 있는지 물어보실 것 같습니다. 3년이 지나면 대개 흥미를 잃고 새로운 일을 하고 싶으니까요. 맞습니다! 적어도 3년에 한번씩 직무를 바꾸거나 회사를 옮기면서 과거의 컴포트(Comfort) 존을 벗어날 필요가 있지요. 하지만, 장기적으로 연속적인 맥락(Context)을 가지는 것도 중요합니다. 그 후 생업과 함께 뭔가 의미 있는...
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