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Research shows that when people are resistant to change, it helps to reinforce what will stay the same. Visions for change are more compelling when they include visions of continuity. Although our strategy might evolve, our identity will endure.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
The constant comparing of notes also serves as an ongoing examination of old notes in a new light. I am surprised how often the addition of one note leads to a correction, a complementation or an improvement of old ideas.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
Largest Quantitative Synthesis to Date Reveals What Predicts Human Behavior and How to Change It
Hailey Reissmanasc.upenn.educarryover effects, in which people’s experience in an experiment alters their future behavior. To avoid this phenomenon, companies should “shuffle” users between experiments.
Stefan H. Thomke • Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
Make Small Adjustments
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
anthropic.com • How We Built Our Multi-Agent Research System
“Present research,” he observed,
is overwhelmingly concentrated in two directions: research and development for breakthroughs to the better production of better wares and general systems analysis concerned with protecting man for further consumption. Future research ought to lead in the opposite direction; let us call it counterfoil research.
... See moreL. M. Sacasas • Care, Friendship, Hospitality: Reflections on the Thought of Ivan Illich
Evolutionary hypotheses, where one parameter is slightly optimized, have a less profound effect than revolutionary hypotheses, where the approach is fundamentally different. That said, evolutionary hypotheses are more likely to bear fruit.