How to Shift Projects Consistently and on Schedule

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Spencer: One of the things I really admired about you is that you are able to shift things so consistently and on schedule. Spencer: Sometimes there's, I feel like sometimes I'm paying up super got me from shipping things but I really do aspire to ship things as soon as they're ready. The danger is if during that those years, years, years,. you're actually not getting tons of feedback from the world then there's a really good chance you're going to build something that people don't actually care about or want.

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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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