Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Everyday Statistics and Climate Change Strategies (with Cassandra Xia)

Jun 23, 2021

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

How I Met Spencer and Created a Shed

2min

How to Shift Projects Consistently and on Schedule

3min

How I Created Adventures in Cognitive Biases for Slunch

2min

How to Avoid Shed Projects Like This

2min

How to Avoid Sheds

3min

How Many Interviews Do You Have to Do?

2min

The Importance of Pre-Prototyping

2min

How to Reduce Risk in Prototyping

2min

10.

The Importance of Delivering Value

2min

11.

The Meta Question and the Hierarchy of Questions

2min

12.

How to Answer a Meta Question

2min

13.

The Importance of Thinking About the Underlying Goal of the User

2min

14.

How to Help an Entrepreneur With Their Idea

2min

15.

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

2min

16.

The Venn Diagram: The Intersection of the Things Your Users Really Care About

2min

17.

Wizard's Guide to Statistics

2min

18.

The Power of Expected Value

2min

19.

Building Intuition for Probabilistic Settings

2min

20.

How to Make Your Memory More Accurate

2min

21.

How to Build a Trans-Feed Video

2min

22.

How to Make a Cake Instead of a Shed

3min

23.

How to Create a Minimal Viable Product

2min

24.

How to Be a 10x Better Startup

3min

25.

Probabilistic Thinking on Climate Change

3min

26.

The Role of Evidence in Catastrophic Events

2min

27.

The Importance of Behavioral Change in Climate Change

2min

28.

The Uncertainty of Climate Change

2min

29.

The Uncertainty of Climate Change

3min

30.

The Importance of Being Accurate in Modeling

4min

31.

The Importance of Uncertainty in Science

2min

32.

How to Reflect on Your Integrative Values

3min

33.

How to Make a Massive Difference in Climate Change

2min

34.

How to Be a Successful Political Strategist

2min

35.

How to Maximize Your Return on Investment in the Climate Space

3min

36.

How to Build an Expansive Grant Idea

4min

37.

How to Be a Better Listener

2min

38.

Corporate Based Strategies to Try to Improve Global Warming

3min

39.

How to Influence 100 Companies to Reduce Pollution

2min

Read the full transcript here.

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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