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If you want to make New Years resolutions that will actually make you happier (and that you can achieve), then this is the chart to use. The world’s top happiness researchers were polled on the most effective and feasible ways for people to make themselves happier.... 1/3
Super effective & achievable based on the research :
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Invest in family and friends
💃🏻Join a club
🤹‍♂️Be mentally & physically active
👩‍❤️‍👩Be nicer & kinder to others
🌲Experience nature
🛌Get more sleep
🙏🏻Practice your religion, if you have one
💰Enroll in automatic savings
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Lowest in effectiveness and feasible for making you happy:
🧹Decluttering
🍃Becoming vegan
🖥 Eliminating screens
🏡Owning your own home
🤱Having kids
There’s more detail in the paper which is linked. And happy new year! 3/3 repub.eur.nl/pub/113414/Rep…
Also, the evidence that getting exposure to nature makes you happy got a lot stronger last year 👇.

Two hours a month appears to be an effective dose, and urban parks work, so this is a pretty feasible resolution for increasing happiness.
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Ethan Mollick
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Startups can learn a lot by using surveys to test their ideas, but most of them do such bad survey design that the results are almost useless. Since I do a lot of survey research, I thought it might be worth sharing some tips for getting started with surveying for startups. 1/5
First, you need a good population to survey. Many startups start by surveying your family & friends. This is a bad idea that causes bias. One easy way to get a better sample of consumers in Mechanical Turk. This study shows MTurk is a pretty good source, and offers some tips. 2/5
You also have to ask good questions! Bad question design will lead to bad data, plus lots of people giving up on the survey. This is a nice guide to designing good questions. 3/5 stripe.com/atlas/guides/s…
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Ethan Mollick
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This review article discusses the SCIENCE of having good meetings! A few key highlights...
Before the meeting:
✅only meet if needed
🎯set clear goals & outcomes
📄have an agenda that all review in advance
⏰make it short & relevant to all invited
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…
During the meeting...
⏱arrive on time or
📋follow the agenda
🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️everyone participates
💻📱never multitask
⚔️intervene if mood turns negative
🤪humor helps performance
🙅‍♀️leave time for objections
🗳Let everyone help decision-making. If a decision is made, tell everyone 2/3
After the meeting
📍Send action items and notes immediately
🤷🏼‍♀️right after meeting have brief after action discussion
🥇incorporate getting better at meetings into organizational goals

Some of this may seem obvious, but all these points are backed by science & worth doing! 3/3
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Ethan Mollick
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There is no reliable way to predict which founders will be successful based on their personality or innate characteristics (see 👇for more on this), but founders do differ in terms of skills from non-founders.. 1/4
This survey compared HBS grads who became founders versus those that don't. Some of this is unsurprising (including comfort with uncertainty), but it also suggests that founders are skilled at rallying internal & external stakeholders to a single vision. 2 hbswk.hbs.edu/item/skills-an…
Founders also are good at identifying opportunities for startups, and think about them in a different way than non-founders. There is a deep body of research on effectuation, the principles used by founders to evaluate new ideas. More on that here: 3/4 effectuation.org/?page_id=207
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Vinay Gupta
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I'm thinking about new years resolutions.

First is I need to *get* capitalism at a philosophical level. I've been a bad CEO because of collaboration style habits held over from the think tank world

Good think tanks are egalitarian: communication between equals. Companies aren't
So I need to get more used to capitalist conceptions of money and power, rather than trying to run an utterly flat shop which completely maximises the intelligence of all participants.

People have emotions about money. I don't (yoga broke that out of me.)

Beneficent authority.
My religious tradition also emphasises absolute spiritual equality. I can't think of myself as "better than" in an epidemiological way.

Being smarter is no more "me" than being taller or being older. These are jus attributes of the self, not the self itself.

Not CEO mind!
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Michael Curzi
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Yet another domain of human excellence liquidated, simplified & streamlined in service of the Great Machine. Who will sit in its cockpit?

No one, hopefully. Real humans involve responsibility, guilt.

It's okay. Go back to sleep. The Machine will handle everything.
The technocracy - the vast apparatus of bureaucracy and technology - is an attempted heatsink for human responsibility. Our role in things doesn't *go away*, but becomes so distributed that when the lumbering machinery careens off a cliff, no one can be held responsible.
Causal responsibility is conserved of course. But all of the committees, procedures, objective measures, cargo culting & scientism - this performative aping of truth, Reason & evidence - the attempt to remove anything human from the equation - lets us pretend otherwise.
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Have some New years resolutions? Maybe want to start a podcast? Here are a couple of tips to make it work... #podcasting #storytelling
First of all: It is not radio! A lot of broadcasters make the mistake of just publishing their radio program online. A radio program is made for a certain time slot and is aimed to the masses. A podcast can be listened to at any time and is a far more personal experience.
Make sure you don't just sit around a microphone and talk. Go out and record the world your story lives in. Just having people talking might be interesting if the subject really speaks to you, but if you want people to stick around longer, a change of (audio) scenery really helps
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Concerned about the habit gaps in your life and career?

Want to build a habit? Great.

Want to kill a habit that has been slowing you down or harming you? Great.

#career #law #eLearning #lawsikho #habits
You need to understand how habit gets created and how they are perpetuated once the behavior is learned at the level of a habit.

It all starts with some kind of awareness.

Let’s say it’s a cigarette addiction. How is it going to start? I can speak from personal experience.
The first trigger is the awareness and the universal availability of cigarettes. Being aware of the existence of cigarettes is easy. Everyone knows. Cigarette companies make sure of that, through all sorts of promotional activities.
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I wanted to talk about this terrible chart, and the concept of "bias" and how it's misused, often deliberately.
We have a cultural tendency to think of a LACK of bias as a positive quality -- a quality of being objectively measured & balanced, where everything is "on the one hand... but on the other hand..."

Like blind Justice, holding up her scales.
But not every idea has an ideal balance point somewhere in the middle. "Nazis: good or bad?" should have only one answer, BAD, expressed in the strongest possible terms.
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Just woke up from a 2 hour nap, so I guess I am as ready as I am going to be for night 2 of the #DemDebate.

If I'm lucky, I overslept Jake Tapper's segment.
Just as bad, I turned on just in time for Biden.
Good: putting the question on screen during answers

Bad: having stupid wording on the questions you asked in the first place
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