Based on what we’ve seen over the last eight months of state-reported COVID-19 data, we think two big, potentially misleading things are about to happen to the testing, case, and death numbers that al
We live in a time where products are shipped at an incredibly fast rate. With the internet democratizing access to information, new innovations are constantly being churned out and competition has gro
Usability isn’t everything. “...it is clear that for an unskilled user, the tricycle is much easier to use. But, as we know, the payoff from investing in learning to ride on two wheels is enormous.” —
2 min read · Dec 8, 2014 -- Four months ago, I wrote a post about how my job felt like it had shifted from engagement to product. My boss understood the distinction and suggested I become director of
3 min read · Aug 15, 2014 -- One reason I love what we’re doing at Chalkbeat is because when we say local first, we really mean it. Our Tennessee bureau created a voter guide for the Shelby County sch
Author : Date : January 25, 2023 My second favorite Retro I invented…only second to Retro Catz! Instructions: Present the following categories to your Team to to see if any of them align with aspects
Design thinking may be a buzzword, but it’s also a method to solve complex problems. And it has informed the work of many newsrooms, including the NYT , Buzzfeed and WBEZ. So when is the right time to
Soft skills, power skills and people skills. In the office, emotional intelligence goes by many names. But whatever the name, these skills are the key to success for product people. I talked with 10 p
T he first week of March, Patrice Peck, a freelance journalist living in New York, started sanitizing everything. She went to Nitehawk, a dine-in movie theater, and brought Clorox to wipe down the lit
"Great engineers distinguished themselves by making others' jobs easier; by being honest; by helping their teammates make decisions more efficiently; and by continuously learning. Greatness is not a o
O n the first day of 1942, Gilbert Roberts, a 41-year-old retired British naval officer turned game designer, arrived at Derby House, in Liverpool, for his inaugural meeting with his new boss, Sir Per
Ben Thompson’s “ Stratechery” Smart, but a little too much Kool-Aid 10 min read · Oct 28, 2020 -- Photo: Nordiske Mediedager B en Thompson is the author of Stratechery , a popular newsletter that “pro
Tim Wu has a new piece up on Medium called Ben Thompson’s “Stratechery” ; the subtitle, I think, is more descriptive of Wu’s premise: Smart, but a little too much Kool-Aid Said premise is in the secon
36 min read · Dec 6, 2017 -- ( This essay is long. If it would be easier for you to read a pdf — though one without images and video links for now — you can down load it here .) Have you ever heard of
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies A mid-career crisis can happen to anyone. It can hit even those who objectively have the most fulfilling jobs. When it does, it inflicts pain on the individual suffering it
How we did this This report studies the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the financial fortunes of the U.S. news media industry. It analyzes financial data using methods similar to our state of t
By Innovation Manager Singapore Press Holdings Singapore Connect T wo trends have helped shape strategy discussions in the digital publishing industry this year: First, a spike in online readership du
July 12, 2018 Fourteen Cognitive Biases Common to Product Owners Written by: Fourteen Cognitive Biases Common to Product Owners While the human mind has an amazing capacity for creative thought and sh
Cognitive Biases — A Product Manager’s Achilles’ Heel 8 min read · Nov 25, 2018 -- We humans believe that we are perfectly rational beings yet end up making a lot of irrational decisions in our daily
Creative Futures 40 Provocations to Reimagine the Arts, Documentary, and Journalism Illustrations by Sawsan Chalabi CREATIVE FUTURES is a series of 40 provocations by thinkers across the spheres of ar
This post was originally prepared as a lightning chat for Gather , a platform by the Agora Journalism Center to support community-minded journalists. Watch the live chat here (requires registration).
A good story can make or break a presentation, article, or conversation. But why is that? When Buffer co-founder Leo Widrich started to market his product through stories instead of benefits and bulle
Insights from the sciences of brain and mind that make us better storytellers and can help us understand our selves and our lives in new ways. Find Will on @Wstorr Will Storr is part journalist, inves
I recently began rereading some of the blogs and articles I had archived about storytelling. And reviewing and listening to video’s and podcasts I have saved. This is first of a few things I wanted to
Home Blog Home Training Solutions - Blog Effective Workplace Communication - Blog The Science of Storytelling: How Storytelling Shapes Our Behavior August 06, 2018 The Power of Storytelling and How to
In Liverpool, an exhausted homeless shelter worker puts her head in her hands at the end of another long day. The system she works in is failing the people it is supposed to serve, and she feels power
I am staring at a photograph of myself that shows me 20 years older than I am now. I have not stepped into the twilight zone. Rather, I am trying to rid myself of some measure of my present bias, whic
4 min read · May 23, 2017 -- By Kelly Sarabyn Psychologists have conducted thousands of studies documenting the many ways humans are biased and irrational decision-makers. Part of the reason storytell
We humans generally aren’t great at reasoning objectively about uncertainty as we go about our daily lives. We have a universal desire to find meanings and patterns everywhere. Humans are evolutionari
8 Cognitive Biases That Can Help With Storytelling If there’s something you really want to believe, that’s what you should question the most. Penn Jillette Humans have pattern-seeking brains that feed
Evolution necessitates economical and reliable brain mechanisms in some environmental contexts. These mechanisms emerge as a response to patterns in the environment or enable us to refine our ability
Seeing patterns in the world can be natural. But a fixation on patterns or assigning meaning where there is none may mean something more. Many people have willingly engaged in harmless pattern-seeking
Detecting patterns is an important part of how humans learn and make decisions. Now, researchers have seen what is happening in people's brains as they first find patterns in information they are pres
Cognitive process For other uses, see Pattern recognition (disambiguation) . In psychology and cognitive neuroscience , pattern recognition describes a cognitive process that matches information from
1980 book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson Metaphors We Live By is a book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published in 1980. The book suggests metaphor is a tool that enables people to use what the
One sweltering day in the late 1880s, journalist and photographer Jacob Riis found his way to a stifling slum tenement on Mott Street in New York. A family sat huddled around a small child who lay sti
As I wrote in my last post, "Transmedia Storytelling: The Reemergence of Fundamentals ," transmedia storytelling is very exciting, but it isn't new. It is the ultimate mashup of ancient traditions and
The art of storytelling has ancient origins as humans have relied on it to engage, to share emotions and to relate personal experiences. A new Canadian study finds that no matter how a narrative is ex
Two years ago, when I first wrote about TV and how it had resisted disruption , I called Netflix “just another network”: Netflix famously pivoted from DVDs-by-mail to streaming, but that was only pivo
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