Closing the gap between behavioral science and business

The gap between insight and intervention

I have discovered, over the years, that I’m a spectrum thinker. On white boards and bar…

The Corporate/Startup Gap: Who’s at your BBQ?

Recently I’ve been working to evangelize the use of behavioral science in…

Need a product person? Hire a scientist

One of the most consistent questions I’ve been asked over the years is where to find good…

#WhyMenAttend gender-focused events

A few weeks ago, I got into a discussion on Twitter about why more men did not attend gender-focused events. In the world we want to live in, men recognize that they benefit from privilege and actively address it. In the world we do live in, change has been slow and…

The increasing importance of feeling unhurried

At Microsoft, one of the common cultural tropes was that no meeting ever started on time; being perpetually late was an accepted norm. And while plenty has been written about productivity loss and respect and all the other downsides of being late…

A few notes on conference organizing (or “What I should have said at #PCMAEC”)

The differing attraction of hard problems and new solutions