#Standardized

Sahil Bloom

SahilBloom

Humans are astonishingly bad at setting goals.We consistently establish targets that invite manipulation.THREAD: A mental model on goal setting and unintended consequences: Goodhart’s Law is a simple mental model:When a

Eric Osborne

UrkMcGurk

I grew up in Minnesota in the 1980s. It didn’t grant me extraordinary insight. It’s just a place like a lot of other places in this country. Good people. Safe.

Barrett O'Neill

barrettjoneill

In 2010 Amazon was creating an eBook monopoly...Until Steve Jobs stopped them in their tracks. This epic story is a masterclass in negotiation: By 2010 Amazon had sold 1.5M

Nic Subtirelu

linguisticpulse

one of my many roles is editor of the Forum for the journal TESOL Quarterly. i love how this role has allowed me to engage with different topics and to

Weekend

Ikechhi

Top Strange Coincidences that have ever happened 1. Bill Morgan was declared dead for 14 mins & was revived. To celebrate his survival, he bought a scratch card & won

Starlight Nixie

StarlightNixie

thinkin' about how enormous modern fighter aircraft are(yes i know the Tomcat is almost 50 years old, i still qualify anything post-Vietnam as more or less modern) alright i feel

Dominic Martin

Dominic_Mart

New paper led by @Diversity_Turn MSc student @DomiSchwab out in @JAppliedEcology!Predation is a key ecosystem function – but which factors influence predation rate and predator composition in #vanilla #agroforestry?A thread

Ivo Kubjas

ikubjas

Estonian National Electoral Commission (ENEC) has reviewed the suggestions from i-voting WG. The review is available at https://www.riigikogu.ee/download/8eb9f7ff-8838-4cc8-a52a-ee9f481dd89e (in Estonian).This will change the tech and manag

J.

PresentWitness_

Meta-economics (thread) A bailout for debtors is an anti-bailout for savers. 'Globalism' is the result of a collaborative corporate strategy to reduce international trade barriers and corporate taxes. Populist movements

K-Mart

KaleiaMichele

Thanks to @CodyGathersMD I just spent the last hour + reading an anti- affirmative action article (that was written by an Asian male doctor) and published in the Journal of

eRIPsa

eripsa

(Thread) A few years ago I came up with a system of distributed governance designed to systematize the consensus process at global scales. The proposal was called Polytopolis: a city

𝒿𝑜𝓇𝒹𝒶𝓃𝓃𝑒 𝓁𝓎𝓃𝓃 𝓇𝑜𝓈𝑒 ♡

oceanwaterdeep

All the information needed to make an informed decision on vaccinations- I’ll do a book reading list thread another time- here’s a thread with actual links so that when people

Adam Sacarny

asacarny

with the explosion in #COVID19 cases in NYC and around the country, you may be wondering what hospitals will be paid to treat these patients. in this thread i'll walk

Secret Gamer Girl

SecretGamerGrrl

This little thread and the various side-conversations under it serves very nicely as an introduction to discussing Sciencism and why Silicon Valley is full of idiots with no sense of

el gato malo

boriquagato

when a patient is sufficiently sick, they become immuno-compromised.at that point, opportunistic infections move in.the same is true of societies, and we're seeing it right now.one such infection that has

Sahil Bloom

SahilBloom

20 things I wish I could tell my 18-year-old self: Make decisions that your 80-year old self and 10-year-old self would be proud of.Your 80-year-old self cares about the long-term