How to Choose the Right Tool and Tool Belt for Your Question

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To me, the choice of tool and tool belt depends completely on the question you're trying to answer. So it's hard to give like a clear checklist because it really depends on the nature of your question. I'm not to say about when to use different tools in the tool belt. Well, maybe a crib sheet then. Maybe we should summarize all the, I guess all the techniques we're calling out in this podcast with like links for further reading along with the questions that they answer. We should make an infographic together of like, which of the tool belt and which tool it sells with problem, I think that would be wonderful. Now I want to talk about your journey. You worked

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What are "shed" and "cake" projects? And how can you avoid "shed" projects? What is the "jobs to be done" framework? What is the "theory of change" framework? How can people use statistics (or statistical intuition) in everyday life? How accurate are climate change models? How much certainty do scientists have about climate change outcomes? What are some promising strategies for mitigating and reversing climate change?

Cassandra Xia (@CassandraXia) is the creator of Adventures in Cognitive Biases and co-founder of the non-profit Work on Climate. She is fascinated by how human biases affect the actions we take as a society and how to hack human psychology to get the change that we want. She is previously affiliated with the MIT Media Lab, MIT CS department, and Google AI. More of Cassandra's work can be found at cassandraxia.com and workonclimate.org.

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