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Aug 9, 2022 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
A little behavior change story: How I Used ✨Behavioral Science✨ to Reduce Anxiety & Save My Relationship.
Alternate title: The 1 Weird Trick Smoke Detectors Don't Want You to Know!!
Anyway, come along ☺👇
#BehavioralScience#BehaviorChange
We recently moved to a new apartment with an old water boiler. You get a long lighter and light the little pilot flame when you want to use it, but you should turn it off once you're done to spare the mechanism and because less gas use = less money for russia to commit genocide.
It took a natl holiday but finally get to sit down and try to digest this paper! So excited 🎉 been looking forward to this for days😁 and yesterday couldn't help but bring up @zerdeve's model-centric framework of scientific discovery (affectionately called it a "little people >
model" when explaining the idea of agent-based modelling and it stuck, sorry) and @djnavarro's Devil & Deep Blue Sea over wine w/ partner. Both got teary-eyed (shh) contemplating how this type of work feels so much more like "real" (meta?)science -- careful, nuanced, powerful >