Peeragogy
So you’ve decided you want to try peer learning? Maybe you’ve already found a few people who will support you in this effort. Congratulations! It’s…
Farnam Street Blog - decision making and quotes
I have a fairly simple objective: I want to go to bed each night smarter than when I woke up. I also want to live a meaningful life and become a…
How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies
In his new book, “How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens,” author Benedict Carey informs us that “most of our…
Special issue on Collective and Network Approaches to Leadership
A paradigm shift has occurred within the field of leadership toward a more relational view that emphasizes the connections among the entities…
Serendipity: Creative Process between Accident and Sagacity
The notion of serendipity is quickly becoming an important reference for the creative industries as well as for our innovation-obsessed economy in…
How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies
In his new book, “How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens,” author Benedict Carey informs us that “most of our…
HBR - "Together" changes connections
Human beings are profoundly social — we are hardwired to connect to one another and to want to work together. Frankly, we would never have survived…
Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach
We analyzed 700 million words, phrases, and topic instances collected from the Facebook messages of 75,000 volunteers, who also took standard…
Inducing Peer Pressure to Promote Cooperation
Cooperation in a large society of self-interested individuals is notoriously difficult to achieve when the externality of one individual's action is…