Brian Dys

Tag: Psychology

  • Reading List: Week 4, June 2022

    A great leader inspires the team and elevates the people around them. They build a vision that engages and rallies people. With their craft skills, design leads can present the North Star with a powerful enough narrative to excite all disciplines.

    What is the job of a Design Lead?

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    A RACI, also known as a responsibility-assignment matrix, outlines how individuals with different specializations will participate in tasks such as work phases (e.g., discovery), activities (e.g., usability testing), and creation of deliverables (e.g., writing a screener or designing a prototype).

    Setting UX Roles and Responsibilities in Product Development: The RACI Template

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    Often, you’ve become a manager, because you’re someone who loved mentoring and developing junior folks, and you’ve been tapped for management because people thrived with your support.

    Performance Management as a New Manager: An Overview (Part I)

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    Once we get rid of the illusionary multitasking and the toxic productivity, cognitive bottlenecks are not inherently bad. They are just characteristics of our mind we need to consider when we plan our work and interact with the world.

    Cognitive bottlenecks: the inherent limits of the thinking mind

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  • Reading List: Week 5, May 2022

    Instead of blindly following organisational goals, servant leaders prioritise the well-being and development of individuals within their team. This results in better engagement, better mental health, and better personal growth.

    Servant leadership: why being a servant leader is worth the work

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    Say you’re about to announce a decision. But instead of falling back on your authority to justify it — because after all, you’re the boss and what you say goes — imagine you have to justify your decision. You have to walk people through your data and analysis.

    To Avoid Making These 7 Classic Strategic Mistakes, Science Says Ask Yourself 5 Questions

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    I wish knew that it was OK to ask questions and that it’s OK to fail.

    “What I wish I’d known when I started my career”: 11 innovators tell us

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    From the inside, via introspection, each of us feels that our beliefs are pretty damn sensible. Sure we might harbor a bit of doubt here and there. But for the most part, we imagine we have a firm grip on reality; we don’t lie awake at night fearing that we’re massively deluded.

    Crony Beliefs

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  • Reading List: Week 2, April 2022

    Some psychologists call this constant chasing of pleasure the “hedonic treadmill” because people who are constantly striving for a “better life” end up expending a ton of effort only to end up in the same place.

    The Disease of More

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    Many projects begin with principles (ex: easy, simple). But the hard part isn’t coming up with the principles so much as adhering to them or rather becoming subservient to them.

    Paper at 10

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    So moderating spam seems to quite clearly enable more free speech by making platforms for speech more usable. Without such moderation, the platforms would get less use and people would be less likely to be able to speak in the same manner.

    Why Moderating Content Actually Does More To Support The Principles Of Free Speech

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    While many of us have thought of being a good listener being like a sponge that accurately absorbs what the other person is saying, instead, what these findings show is that good listeners are like trampolines.

    What Great Listeners Actually Do

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