weekly Go Flip Yourself
roundup links to share every week on k7v.in and flana.substack.com
weekly Go Flip Yourself
Does gear matter?
arun.is
Why families will look radically different by 2100
bigthink.com
Mum Does the Washing
open.spotify.comA 2023 Look-back: the internet dies, etc.
culture.ghost.io
The 1,000 True Fans Theory works for monetization but not for social impact.
Effort bias: Why we overvalue fraternities, exclusive clubs, and Taylor Swift tickets
Jonny Thomsonbigthink.com
The Anarchist and the Hockey Stick
experimental-history.comNot only do we have useful research that breaks the rules; we also have useless research that follows the rules. You can develop theories, run experiments, gather data, analyze your results, and reject your null hypotheses, all by the book, without a lick of fraud or fakery, and still not produce any useful knowledge. In psychology, we do this all the time.
When asked about his silence during meetings, Rockefeller often recited a poem:
A wise old owl lived in an oak,
The more he saw the less he spoke,
The less he spoke, the more he heard,
Why aren’t we all like that old bird?