Joseph Jay Williams's podcast

Q: How do you define dimensions along which your collection, activity is unusually good? Scientist Sharing Conversations 25.12.2024 3:46 ↓

Q: How do you define dimensions along which your collection, activity is unusually good? Scientist Sharing Conversations

How can you flip stress in high stakes moments from hurting into helping you? 05.07.2024 8:56 ↓

Imagine you're sweating buckets, because you have a big presentation, or a critical meeting. You're worried you choke, or say the wrong thing, or your mind will go blank. Our research has shown experimentally the kinds of messages you can say to yourself, almost like magic words in Harry Potter, so you see stress as a resource they can help you instead of something for you to fight against. Read t...

What's strong evidence we can get for a claim, about whether x is a good idea, whether x has benefit y? 22.06.2024 8:10 ↓

What's strong evidence we can get for a claim, about whether x is a good idea, whether x has benefit y? Best kept secret :D, of randomized controlled trials!

What do you do with AI to ensure five years from today it's made you happier, healthier, gotten more done at work with less effort? 22.06.2024 2:00 ↓

I give examples of micro-experiments you can run with chatgpt and other platforms. Dick's permits is to try to use it at least once a day if not more and just start telling it all the things you wish you could magically do, for example, how do I exercise when I'm not motivated give me 10 different reasons, how do I get more done work in less time give me five ideas based on top management theorist...

168 hours how do you do things that are just in your core competencies? 21.06.2024 3:12 ↓

A lot of what we do at work isn't that helpful and responding too much energy in time on it meanwhile there are things that would help us achieve our core goals and high impact but we don't realize we should be doing them. Reading 168 hours by Laura Vanderkam is giving some examples of questions to ask yourself so you can begin experimenting with what you can stop doing what you can start doing.

Tools for A/B testing with machine learning: No analysis, programming or stopping decisions required? 20.06.2024 12:00 ↓

Title: Tools for A/B testing with machine learning: No analysis, programming or stopping decisions required? This brief episode is a teaser for a scientific paper on a tool for experimentation. It was used at Harvard for people to deploy experiments on copy content (text, links, questions). This was done without the designers having to do any programming, any analysis, or even decision making abou...