How to Make a Cake Instead of a Shed

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The design tools put the thing in front of actual users. So I think it does help because if all the users are excited about it, then the creator runs into enough excited users and they'll probably have the confidence to ship it. If you don't have a really crystal clear idea of like what you're actually trying to do with it, then you're just comparing it against this kind of idealized form. That's where you're so wise. And that really echoes a quote from one of my favorite creators.

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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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