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Helping great teams & products get better. Coaching leaders where Strategy, Delivery & Research overlap.

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Coffee.

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Reading a 2016 paper on inquiry-based learning where "cognitive load" is once again used as a reason to stop any learner from doing anything FUN and HARD and EXPLORATORY my God

Being alive increases your cognitive load. We are not in some kind of robotic fry-out state every time we have to consume novel information. Working in a repetitive assembly line is low cognitive load and also destroys people

This one little tiny concept taken out of context is used for so many bad arguments.

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@grimalkina I think my favourite bit of research in the category of “massively misinterpreted and overused” would be Miller’s “The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two”. Heard it used as justification on everything from team size (!) to the number of items on a menu (!!).

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@grimalkina I owned sevenplusorminustwo.com for a few years with the intent of putting a bunch of “FFS this is what it actually means” content there — but never got around to it :)

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    adrianh,
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    @claresudbery @GeePawHill It’s one of my go-to gift books for other people :-)

    grimalkina, to random
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    I swear I'm going to do a research study someday that's called "Do All Engineers Magically Turn Evil Once Promoted Into Leadership: Seems Unlikely"

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    @grimalkina God. So. Much. This.

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    The ice cream patrolling the local streets as Storm Kathleen is beginning to hit feels… over optimistic.

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    Coffee.

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    Time to make a vague plan for next week.

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    More. Coffee.

    adrianh, to random
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    Nice collection of resources on reflection from Edinburgh Uni https://www.ed.ac.uk/reflection

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    Once more shaking my fist at "blogs" that lack RSS feeds.

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    Ipsos run the biased survey questions from that episode of Yes, Prime Minister! Glorious! https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/yes-prime-minister-questionnaire-design-matters

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    We have measured something researchers call beliefs about "role-based communal affordances" in my lab or in other words: how much do software developers think that the job of being a software developer includes helping other people and improving their lives? And the answer is A LOT of professional developers think this is important and see this as part of their identity.

    People's beliefs about the communal affordances of software work is an undermeasured, underappreciated important thing imo.

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    @grimalkina This stuff is fascinating to me since I so often deal with breaking down stereotypes that folk in discipline X have about discipline Y in my coaching work.

    e.g. the stereotype that “all” engineers don’t care about that stuff effects how folk in research/product/c-suite treat the group, how they set incentives, how they recruit, etc. etc.

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    @grimalkina <nods>

    And that frustration plays into the “management/whomever don’t trust us” stereotypes — which leads to a delightfully toxic little feedback cycle unless somebody digs in and actually gets all sides talking about values and objectives.

    (also — kinda sorta related https://quietstars.com/sturgeons-biases/)

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    @grimalkina The numbers are complete bullshit and very metaphorical — and likewise on the chatting front :-)

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    @mlevison The current status of what is on quietstars.com & what is on adrianhoward.com is… confused :-)

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    2007: Watching "Project Runway" helps me develop role models for failure. When a contestant loses, do they take defeat with dignity? What attitudes are likely to help me bounce back after being rejected/fired/laid off?

    2009: I ponder: Tim Gunn is really good at phrasing criticism in a way that's likely to get across to the designer. I want to be that kind of manager.

    2024: Taskmaster's format gives me a different kind of failure to reflect on. Because one doesn't get fired right away... 1/n

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    @brainwane Another one for ya.

    There’s a netflix cooking whose name escapes me that’s all about chocolateering — rather than getting voted off the worst each week gets extra 1-1 training from the judge… so they can come back better.

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    @brainwane “School Of Chocolate” is the series https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15172154

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    Monday. Coffee.

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    Current plan: Drown this evil bug with bourbon since I don’t need to do anything useful tomorrow.

    adrianh,
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    @coldclimate I’ve been running a low grade fever + buckets of snot since Tuesday and it’s a complete PITA. /grumpy

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    Ohhh! The pre-orders for the upcoming "Present Yourself" book are opening soon — and the kickstarted ebook was in my inbox! After a quick skim it looks to be packed with excellent advice on how to communicate your stories inside and outside of work.

    Subscribe to pre-order notifications over at https://womentalkdesign.com/book?mc_cid=30ea6c336d&mc_eid=82bad15607

    Lots of great stuff from Danielle Barnes, Christina Wodtke, Margot Bloomstein, Ariba Jahan, Meena Kothandaraman, Paola Mariselli, Eleanor Reinholdt, Kat Vellos, and others.

    adrianh, to random
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    Pondering whether I should s just spend all of Sunday pottering around in my dressing gown.

    grimalkina, to random
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    I'm reading The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow and what an ambitious book, wow, really enjoying it!

    adrianh,
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    @grimalkina It is so much fun!

    adrianh, to random
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    What is it with people always changing their LinkedIn profile URLs? What's the value of the change over having a persistent presence at the same location?

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