The Risk Aversion Crisis in Psychology

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Psychology and other social science fields have been undergoing a replication crisis for the past several years. The team at Clearr Thinking has launched a project called Transparent Replications that seeks to celebrate high-quality research while also shifting incentives toward more replicable, reliable methods. They accomplished this by conducting rapid replications of recently published psychology and human behavior studies in prominent academic journals. To read those results and other essays by the team, visit replications.clearrthinking.org.

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Why do organizations get slower as they grow? What can organizations learn from slime molds? What are the advantages of top-down organization versus bottom-up organization, and vice versa? How can organizations encourage serendipity? What use are doorbells in jungles? Why is it so hard for organizations to set a "north star" that is at once plausible, coherent, and good?

Alex Komoroske has over a decade of experience in the tech industry as a product manager focusing on platform- and ecosystem-shaped problems. While at Google, he worked on Chrome's Web Platform PM team, Augmented Reality in Google Maps, and Ambient Computing. He's fascinated by how to navigate the emergent complexity within organizations to achieve great results. You can find some of his public writing at komoroske.com.

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