Schadenfreude can lead you to tacitly support bad outcomes. Abusive bosses persist in part because people take secret pleasure when a rival has a bad boss, so no one calls them out. The solution is to build a company culture focusing on cooperating with rivals, not crushing them
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Twitter’s Risk Calculus Shifts After Going Private
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I would also add that the risk calculus for Twitter has changed. At a large public company, risk is avoided (which can be a good & safer thing, but slows change). Private companies, and especially entrepreneurial ones, make bigger bets with higher risk of failure or big returns.
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Sharing Scholarly Articles Without Reading Them Undermines Credibility
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Feel smarter, retweet scholarly articles you haven’t read! https://
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Private Equity Takeovers: Higher Prices, Lower Service Quality
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By taking firms private, funds can do all sorts of changes without having to tell anyone much about it. The result is often higher prices & lower services, as private equity funds try to maximize profit. It is just very unusual to see the process play out so publicly.
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Twitter Acquisition: Cost Cutting and Organizational Realignment Strategy
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This is a useful thread to think about changes at Twitter. Some of these changes – massive cost cutting & layoffs, aligning of the goals of the company with the goals of the new owner – are common when firms are bought out. But private equity does it quietly, so we don’t see it.
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Murray Davis’s 12 Criteria for Theory Interestingness and Innovation
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The 12 things that make a theory interesting, as classically listed by Murray Davis in a 1971 article, also can serve other purposes: like deciding what is a good topic for a popular article, or as a guide for finding disruptive ideas for the future. …
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Twitter Ouroboros: Self-Referential Feedback Loop Dynamics
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I am being sucked in by the rapidly forming Twitter ouroboros (or perhaps Twitter singularity)
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 5 novembre 2022
People on Twitter keep assuming that every one of my tweets is commentary on what is happening on Twitter, thus applying the findings to Twitter, ensuring it is commentary on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/rux4AFKwb1I am being sucked in by the rapidly forming Twitter ouroboros (or perhaps Twitter singularity) People on Twitter keep assuming that every one of my tweets is commentary on what is happening on Twitter, thus applying the findings to Twitter, ensuring it is commentary on Twitter.
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Understanding Complexity Science for AI Systems
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And to understand the science of complexity, this site is a great place to start. https://t.co/bv4wUcf51C
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 5 novembre 2022And to understand the science of complexity, this site is a great place to start.
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Critical Systems Safety: AI in Hospitals and Nuclear Plants
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It is exactly the type of complex system they describe. Hospitals. Nuclear plants. All places where accidents are rare, but catastrophic
