I encourage everyone to think like a social scientist. Not all the time — that would be exhausting and you’d probably be accused of being a “creepy, monomaniacal over-analyzer” — but you should think like a social scientist when it matters. Why? Because you’ll be more likely to make better decisions. Thinking like a scientist…
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What is Attention? Attention is the focus of our mental resources on some information, while filtering out other information. Attention is crucial to everything from better decisions to better relationships, yet everything about us — our bodies, minds, cultures, and societies — encourages us to pay as little attention as possible. Attention is a gateway:…
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In one of my LinkedIn groups, a member (Shannon Miller) asked a thoughtful question that prompted me to dig the following bits out of my archive and post it. So what impresses me? Three things impress me, every time, without fail. Real expertise. Real expertise is qualitatively different, even from someone who has much learning…
Continue ReadingReally cool to read through and find so much awesomeness added to WordPress 3.6 while I was gone. I should take three weeks off more often. — Andrew Nacin (@nacin) April 3, 2013 This post tests WordPress’ Twitter Embeds feature.
Continue ReadingAll children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful,…
Continue ReadingThis is a test for Jetpack’s Tiled Gallery. Install Jetpack to test. This is some text after the Tiled Gallery just to make sure that everything spaces nicely.
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