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mlevison

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Certified Scrum Trainer | I help organizations and teams become more effective. I use #Scrum, #Kanban #Agile #BehaviouralPsychology. | I’ve helped over 8000 people build better teams

I dabble with #PKM aka Personal Knowledgement Management so the ideas that fall out of my head get written down somewhere #Obsidian. #fedi22

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15 yrs ago I read one book on

Since then it more doubled in size.

Then it had children.

BTW The Catalyst - Jonah Berger is so good that I have 20+ postit notes over two chapters.

(Can't alt tags to work. Books are Influence: The Psychology or Persuasion - Robert Cialdini - 2 editions and How Minds Change David McRaney)

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When we give people data, we expect the data will overcome preconceived notions and change minds. Sometimes data works at changing minds. 10 yrs ago the vaccine autism link was throughly debunked. (Orig paper was fraud). Yet showing ppl the truth often backfired. Some went from slightly anti-vaccine to throughly.

If the distance between their current thinking and the new belief is too far, it is easier to reject.
https://buff.ly/3w3GRWX

Source: The Catalyst - Jonah Berger

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hashtag#Tools for job seekers - looking for feedback and additional ideas/tools.

https://buff.ly/3JqYljg

As I mentioned last week, I have seen hundreds of people looking for work through LinkedIn. The post is intended to 1) help people find work that is well suited for them 2) become a place where I can add additional sources for people to read.

What non-commercial sources would you add?

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@johannarothman I will add links when I next update. Thanks

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@albertocblanco nice I well add it as link tomorrow

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Where do you wish you had more ? Where has an failure harmed you in the past?

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Mere exposure to ideas that are outside of our zone of acceptance can reinforce our existing beliefs. Chris Bail et al ran experiment on twitter, they had hoped to discover that getting people to listen to ideas different from their own would moderate opinions. Result: the opposite. Exposure to ideas from the other caused them to take on more extreme beliefs. https://buff.ly/4aHbbpo

Share examples of where this has undermined your work?

Source: The Catalyst - Jonah Berger

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@RakowskiBartosz When you find it let me know. The section on Distance in Berger's book is the one that has surprised me the most. I already knew about loss aversion. Distance I did not.

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@RakowskiBartosz

At some level that is the core of the chapter. Create a connection and then find areas of agreement.

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We trigger when we leave the other person feeling (not thinking ;-), that our request is all about us and not their emotional need. If you want to avoid take the time to listen to other people's needs. Really listen with the intent to understand. (Hint this is often an emotional response, better explaining your idea won't help)

When have you triggered reactance, by putting your own needs first? What did you do to recover?

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and What to do about them
You're a manager who just asked your leadership to solve an impediment. Starting a new team and you tell them they need to use Scrum. In both cases you're surprised by the defensive reaction you just triggered. What happened?

https://buff.ly/3vWVE5W

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When I posted this, I did not expect all these replies reporting similar issues. The number of people saying they occasionally/often have to restart Safari to make it work properly is flabbergasting to me. I probably restart Safari at least once a day, and that’s mildly frustrating.
https://mastodon.social/@simonbs/112274840951637693

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@simonbs Curious I don't have this problem.

When I have safari problems I usually discover its extension. I appreciate that you've already tried that.

Good luck

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Alternatives to Jekyll far static website publishing. Simplicity is key?

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Matthias @Surfed - love surfed and the new iCloud sync.

When you're looking for hook for version 3.0 - I offer a blog post by Maggie Appleton on visualizing history: https://maggieappleton.com/historical-trails -- this seems perfectly suited to Surfed.

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Yet Again the AI Hype cycle strikes: Google has made amazing claims about DeepMind discovering many new substances. The reality is no real value has been delivered.

https://buff.ly/3Q4gOFV

Everyone promises miracles with LLMs and so far I see limited value delivered.

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This describes the XP approach as “test it yourself, sometimes” and skips over CruiseControl... This is annoying enough that I might have to write a rebuttal. https://graphite.dev/blog/invention-of-modern-ci

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@jchyip Thanks - I used both yours and the .Net flavour. Earlier than 2004.

Any chance this is LLM generated crud?

@jmeowmeow

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without Authority. To overcome the Endowment effect, it helps to highlight the cost of inaction. In the world, we often deal with teams that say, we too rushed or busy to improve. Consider showing them cost of not doing anything. Not refactoring and improving engineering practice? Highlight the increase of chaos in their code. Not improving flow? Consider measuring # of days items are stuck waiting to be worked on. Show the failure to act is already harming the team.

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@sproing Wow. Sorry that happened. Since like a bit of waste of money.

The cynical part of me says, some organizations don't need to survive. The practical part of me wants to tackle this an influence case study.

(I suspect that I don't want to figure out the org in question so I don't cry).

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@sproing Then I think you might have given me a lightening rod for the next few weeks. "Influencing change in hard environment"...

Clear limit - some environments are so invested in the past that they can't change.

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@sproing Hmmmm. Gut feeling, the organization is happy enough with how things currently work. Status Quo bias kicks in. They have no reason to change because they're currently doing well enough.

This evening, I promise to shed a tear or two with all the wasted potential.

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I bought a bunch of old towels at a thrift store so that I'll be ready for baby goat births (10 days to go!) but they are soooooo stinky with other people's laundry detergent. I really really detest scented laundry soap, and I'm a little worried those towels will increase the odds of baby goat rejection, since it could change their smell.

Any tips on getting rid of laundry soap smell, other than washing them many times with unscented soap and vinegar? One washing made almost no difference

mlevison,
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@sundogplanets A bonfire?

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    mlevison,
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    @lzg Give me a couple of days to think about it.

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    Berger's - The Catalyst, offers "Burn the Boats" as way overcoming the Endowment effect. Historically Cortes did this to force his men to conquer what we now call Mexico. Two obvious problems - few people have enough control over their situation that they have an opportunity to burn the boats. The other is that sometimes it backfires - hello Noika. (I assume we all remember the burning platform memo)

    So far this is my least favourite tool

    Source: The Catalyst - Jonah Berger

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    without Authority. We get kicked by the Endowment effect: It is easier to tolerate the status quo than to make change. In the world this is made worse because of a Cost Benefit Timing Gap. We pay a lot of $$ upfront and the benefit only shows up later. Sometimes much later. This tells us we need to change how we offer Change.

    We must speed the time to benefit and reduce the cost/risk. Look for clever ways reduce cost of change and even make it reversible (less risk).

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    @flowchainsenseisocial Ok, I dug around. What is surprising? I've not examined all 50 of his risks, however I think I get the rough idea? What am I missing?

    FWIW I searched my archives (DevonThink) and he's reference in over 20 places.

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    Between his musings on computer games that I don't play, alcohol that I don't drink and the Java/Kotlin ecosystem that I don't use, I can sometimes forget why I follow @GeePawHill .
    And then he writes something like https://www.geepawhill.org/2021/01/29/on-political-content/ and I remember again.
    Much love.

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    @sproing @GeePawHill

    I just saw this apparently about 4 mths late.

    There is always much to love about GeePaw including the Java content 🙂

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