The Power of the Default

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i didn't even realize it was a thing, that you could be a practitioner of this field. So i talked to laurias like, i want to do that thing, but i know that thing doesn't exist yet. And fortunately for me, probably in part because caslanstein is married to some at the power,. ignored all o my insecurities and said, here's contact information for the president's science adviser and his deputy. Let them know i passed you along. I've no public policy experience and ie publish nothing of significance. But i would really love to work at the intersection of behaviral science and policy. If there is an opportunity in state or local government,

Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the host of A Slight Change of Plans.

”I am a type A person through and through. I love having the five-year plan and the ten-year plan, and mapping it all out. By nature, that's what I'm like. And I think the series of pivots that my life has naturally taken, or I've had to take, has kind of soured me on that whole way of thinking. […] Maybe it's also that I'm a more grateful person than I used to be. Like, I feel more gratitude, and so part of my orientation now is, well, how lucky am I that I even stumbled upon something?”

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