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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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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.

sundogplanets, to random
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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?

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

    mlevison, to random
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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

    mlevison, to random
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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 I will admit I've never read anything from his world. Do you have a pointer to something I could read online that is shorter than a book?

    mlevison,
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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.

    mlevison, to random
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    Goodbye Evernote, we had a good run. I was Evernote user from when it was ticker tape app. In the past few years, I moved away from storing every web page (never used them). However I was content to keep my Evernote subscription to archive older stuff. Recently, Bending Spoons bought Evernote and laid off all the staff. This was breaking point for me.

    So long and thanks for all the notes.

    mlevison, to random
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    Getting other people to taken on your ideas seriously isn't about authority. At best that will get compliance. Instead it's about .

    There are many paths to influence.

    • Look for collaborators
    • Ask open ended questions
    • Freedom to make their own choices
    • Reduce risks
    • Focus on Relationships

    How have you succeeded at influencing others?
    (Hint although I don't go into geeky detail in the video, everything I share is evidence based)
    https://youtu.be/mLnx5W8mXIU

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    @flowchainsenseisocial Agreed, hence the focus on what people need for influence without satisfying my inner geek. FWIW I need to learn to select key frames in YouTube.

    I don't love video, however I recognize the world shifted.

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    To Limit Reactance, people need to be allowed to persuade selves. How Florida reduced teen smoking. Instead of telling, cue Reactance, they asked teens what they should do. ex: The students cold called a magazine exec asking why accept tobacco ads with teen readership. Exec, says we run anti-tobacco ads. Teens ask, would they run them for free as a public service? Exec says: "We're in business to make money" -> students: "Is this about people or $$?"

    The Catalyst - Jonah Berger

    mlevison, to Greek
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    Google CEO compares AI to Fire and Electricity!! Perhaps he needs to study Mythology. Does he know what happened to Prometheus?

    missmythreyi, to random
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    Websites with office hours?

    mlevison,
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    @missmythreyi even a website deserves time off to unwind.

    lauren, to random
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    Food Stupidity from Waymo and Uber. Word is they're now testing food delivery by robotaxis. Instead of a delivery to your door, you have to run outside, flag down the car, and remove the food from the trunk. I'm sure this will be REALLY popular. Totally tone deaf.

    mlevison,
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    @cstross @lauren I would love to see Uber eats go away and people rediscover the joy of making their own food.

    mlevison,
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    @cstross @lauren probably

    mlevison,
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    @lauren @cstross I assumed the sarcasm came across. I failed

    mlevison, to random
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    We trigger reactance, when we limit the freedom someone has. Especially true, when we want them to do something. To succeed in influencing, we need to give people meaningful real choices.

    Where have you had better luck by providing someone choice?

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    On the topic of how copying & pasting code might impact learning, especially among inexperienced developers, there's research in this area that suggests I might not just be imagining it.

    In studies, subjects who were restricted in copying & pasting retained more, but also understood better.

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232457619_Exploring_Differences_in_Students'_Copy-and-Paste_Decision_Making_and_Processing_A_Mixed-Methods_Study

    mlevison,
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    @gdinwiddie @jasongorman

    Learning pyramid - I would love to see a reference for that. If I had to make a guess it wouldn't be the order you suggested. To lay down long term memory we want to involve more of the brain. More senses > fewer. So I would guess: Doing > Seeing + Hearing (i.e. video) > Reading > Hearing.

    @gdinwiddie the handwriting study didn't replicated: https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2019/2/21-1

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    @gdinwiddie @jasongorman

    A few quick points.

    1. Personal preference for handwriting — love it. != Generalized results for the whole
    2. Personal preferences in some cases actually harm learning ex. Learning styles
    3. When a video is just talking and then it is no better than hearing. So it’s not stimulating your brain. In any case, my quip was just an educated guess
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    @gdinwiddie @jasongorman

    No average person - agreed.
    However, somethings have strong evidence i.e. most effective ways to help people learn

    arstechnica, to random
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    Google might make users pay for AI features in search results

    Plan would represent a first for what has been a completely ad-funded search engine.

    https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/04/google-might-make-users-pay-for-ai-features-in-search-results/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    mlevison,
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    @arstechnica awesome, I don’t want this feature making bad results worse

    cammerman, to random
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    I would like to lobby for my company to pay for pair/mob/group programming training for my team/department.

    Budget-wise, a semi-structured training program is probably going to work better than a longer active coaching engagement. Preferably with a remote option.

    I'm aware of a couple folks who have done this, but don't seem to have anything active now.

    Does anyone know of someone who currently, actively offers a pair/mob programming training course thing like this that I could reach out to?

    mlevison,
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    @cammerman you should just hire @GeePawHill

    I’m half tempted to tell you that I could offer this for you as a certified Scrum developer workshop, but I suspect this isn’t what you really want

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    No matter how far we progress with technology, deep-down it’s usually just another mechanical Turk from the 1700s

    image/jpeg

    mlevison,
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    @mathowie as an idea testing tool a prototype like this is fantastic. (Assuming the people are properly paid). As a long term operational process it’s bizarre

    mlevison, to random
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    - We have anti-persuasion radar that can kick in when we feel pushed, even if it's toward something we want. Example - many people want to speak up more in meetings. (Good). Yet when it becomes a corporate thing, now we ask: "Am I choosing to speak up for my own reasons or because it was pushed". Result: We often shutdown.

    Who has seen an Agile change go off the rails right here?

    Sources: The Catalyst - Jonah Berger

    mlevison,
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    @dhemery yup

    I was trying to keep the fancy language out of the posts :-)

    Endowment is coming up soon

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