Doctors Without eMails: A German Paradox
Doctors are objectively smart. But in Germany their offices often have fax numbers and no eMails. This paradox is a very strange one to me.
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NOT NORMAL
A random collection of back-of-the-envelope calculations, short stories, half-baked theories, bad poems, and more.
Many of these relate to the idea of normalcy what it entails and what it does not.
We are fortunate to live in a time where right and wrong, traditions, and norms are being renegotiated.
Yet, only through exploring what is normal can we see the depth of the clash and be earnest with our hopes.
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How did you tell your children about climate change?
My daughter will live to see climate change become under control. Here I write my initial thoughts on how to introduce her generation's foe.
On Serendipity and Joy
Joy happens at random intervals. But one can design life to maximize the number of joy events per unit of time, i.e. its cross-section.
Hurt People Hurt People
I find it very convenient how when conflict happens in the Middle East we forget that the conflict was started by actions Europe made.
My Least Threatening Look
Men are threatening. But, I own a piece of fabric that, at one time, helped the world forget my innate threat.
Admission Officers the Gatekeepers of Science
Admission officers have an outsized power over the future of science, yet their selection procedures lack objectivity.
LLMs: Demented Savants
I feel I empathize with my LLM assistants more than I do with anyone outside my home. I am a bit puzzled by this, both ashamed and curious
Grand Opportunities Not Challenges
What if we think about what is possible and not what the problems are? In an era of boiling water superconductors how will our lives change?
On Dostoevsky, Ariely, and Gino
Reductionism is central to science, fake data directly threatens this foundation as it pollutes our minds with spurious information
Waiting for Popo
I am currently a toilet, a job that fills my life with purpose, has some shitty work conditions but at least let me wait and reflect on life
The Great Machista Extinction Event
"Are you a feminist?" if the person you are dating does not answer "Yes 100%", please RUN. Help us build a better world who you date matters
Non-Newtonian Routine Dynamics
Routines encompass how organizations change. Somehow, our ontologies fail to acknowledge how diverse their shear change can be.
The Big Ambivalence
Ambivalence is strange. A pull that pushes and breaks. A feeling of possibility and joy with anger and trauma. Useful, purposeful, enraged.
On Planned Excommunication Not Obsolescence
Obsolescence is partly a choice we make. Excommunication is a choice firms make to stop having us using our products we bought from them.
The Case for the Journal of Organization Science Experiments
Where I make a call to create the Journal of Organization Science Experiments. Godspeed to JOSE
chatGPT is a potato
I hate details and facts. I love quirkiness and curiosity. As such the internet has been my playground. A playground now enhanced by chatGPT
On Exercising Hope
Hope is what makes me human, what makes me wake up every morning. As I pursue it, hope provides new marvels and adventures. God I love hope.
This Cold, Never Again
If we meet the Paris agreement's goals, our world will never be as cold as it is today. Never again will the temperature be as mild. #WTF
On the Lack of Migrant Representation
With exceptions, migrants do not have elected officials that represent them. At least, I do not. Could this be the racism of our generation?
Religious Gerrymandering
Where I discuss weird uses of voting in international organizations.
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