202: Nathaniel Schwartz.

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In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde spoke with Nathaniel Schwartz, a Senior Product Manager at Expedia Group.

We talked about several topics such as systems agility, data science, and the origins of Nat’s system-level approach to problem-solving; the concept of psychological safety within organizational teams; some thoughts on the role of artificial intelligence, agency, and mechanisms in the entire concept of work and finding meaning in work; we also had some extemporaneous brainstorming sessions on system-level, strategic, and asymmetric thinking; and lots more.

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Dave Thomas: blog post “Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility)” https://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html

Dan Pink: “When” : https://www.danpink.com/books/when/

Corrections. Nat did some fact-checking on himself. Here's what he found.

Nat can’t make the claim that the difference between morning test scores and afternoon test scores adds up to a full standard deviation. The results of the study on two million Danish schoolchildren (hence also, not the SAT as he had mentioned) actually correlated to something more disturbing. From When: “The effects of later-in-the-day testing were similar to having parents with slightly lower incomes or less education–or missing two weeks of a school year.”

For more, check out the study: Sieversten, H, et al. “Cognitive Fatigue Influences Students’ Performance on Standardized Tests,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 10 (2016): 2621-24

Gödel’s proof is in 1931.

Nat got the name wrong of the authors of the Principia Mathematica that Gödel was responding to. It’s Russell and Whitehead. First published in 1910.

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