It was another nice day out today, so I took the opportunity to go on a few nice walks and listen to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/4)
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Ben Waber
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MIT Researcher, he/him, Senior Visiting Researcher @ Ritsumeikan, Co-Founder of Humanyze, former Senior Researcher @ HBS, author of People Analytics. Most days I'll also post a list of academic talks on AI, management, law, corporate governance, psychology, anthropology, ethics, and similar topics that I've listened to throughout the day (see #AcademicRunPlaylist for examples)
@parham_d I don't find self-help books are insightful or useful, and I generally think people should refrain from telling other fields that they know nothing about what to do. If you're interested in the philosophy of law, for example, there are thousands of books on the topic, and many of the more modern books don't perpetuate racist framing like this one does
First was a great talk by Geoff Kaufman on creating persuasive games and immersive experiences at Stanford University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk5yfsZlMp4 (2/4) #HCI #games
Last was "Producing Fashion," edited by Regina Lee Blaszczyk. This book is a fascinating mix of essays that examine the American fashion industry (read very broadly) from a wide variety of angles - the social production of fashion, the business of fashion in the US, the beginnings of cultural marketing, and more. Highly recommend
Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/7941527/s/a-fascinating-tour-through-the-history-and-sociology-of-the-american-fashion-industry#anchor-7941527 (4/4) #fashion #history #sociology
Next was the second day of the National Bureau of Economic Research's economic growth symposium. I especially liked the talk by Huiyu Li on idea rents and firm growth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZNjo1NgwY8 (3/4) #economics
Economic Growth
Next was the first day of the National Bureau of Economic Research's economic growth symposium. I particularly liked the talks by Jaedo Choi (dynamics of technology transfer) and Marta Prato (geography of innovative firms) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcKjuYSK474 (3/5) #economics
Economic Growth
First was a thought-provoking talk by @dom on the importance for HCI researchers to build more interoperable, focused systems at Stanford University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DIIkX19ihs (2/5) #HCI
We finally had a cool day in Tokyo, and I took the opportunity to go for a good run up into Saitama and listen to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/5)
Last was "The Measure of Progress" by @DianeCoyle1859, who fully interrogates how we currently measure GDP, its gaps, recent trends in constituent metrics, and how to improve societal welfare metrics more broadly. This is sure to be considered a modern classic. Highly recommend
Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/7934854/s/a-masterful-deeply-researched-examination-of-economic-and-welfare-measurement#anchor-7934854 (5/5) #economics
Next was "How Emotions are Made" by Lisa Barrett. This is best thought of two books - the first, up to chapter 8, is a revelatory look at the category error we've made around understanding emotions, revealing through a wide variety of experiments and research how emotions are constructed in real time as an act of categorization - they don't "exist" anywhere in the body. The less said about the rest the better
Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/7934770/s/an-uneven-mostly-scientific-investigation#anchor-7934770 (4/5) #neuroscience #psychology
