The Five Vital Signs of a Scalable Idea and How to Avoid a Voltage Drop
One of the first steps to reaching scale is not losing steam as your idea grows. Here are five specific and universal causes of voltage drops and how to avoid them.
One of the first steps to reaching scale is not losing steam as your idea grows. Here are five specific and universal causes of voltage drops and how to avoid them.
Take a moment to dive into the pieces your fellow behavioral science enthusiasts read most this year.
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for November 2021.
It’s common to hear that transport providers are “simply getting people from A to B”: a low-bar ambition that misses the real purpose of much travel.
Netflix’s landing page is full of choice architecture tools—plausible paths, smart defaults, and carefully curated descriptions. But it doesn’t do all of the work itself. The platform takes cues from you, too.
The prevailing public and media narrative about social media has often focused on the negatives. Yet social media platforms have proved crucial during India’s COVID-19 crisis. Here’s how we can make sense of it all.
How does our level of agency over a decision influence how culpable we feel, when that decision leads to death?
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for April 2021.
Scott Barry Kaufman speaks with Simon Baron-Cohen about Baron-Cohen’s new book, The Pattern Seekers, which makes the case that the same genes that give rise to autism are and have been crucial to humanity’s propensity to invent and innovate.
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for March 2021.