Sharing what I have learned from what I have read: A blog by Joe Abittan
My last post was about negative error cultures and the harm they can create. Today is about the flip side, positive error cultures and how they can help encourage innovation, channel creativity, and help people learn to improve their decision-making. "On the other end of the spectrum," writes Gerd Gigerenzer in Risk Savvy, "are positive … Continue reading Positive Error Cultures
No matter how smart, observant, and rational we are, we will never have perfect information for all of the choices we make in our lives. There will always be decisions that we have to make based on a limited set of information, and when that happens, there will be a risk that we won't make … Continue reading Negative Error Cultures
“More African American Adults are under correctional control today—in prison or jail, on probation or parol—than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.” Michelle Alexander writes this in her book, The New Jim Crow, to demonstrate the extent of mass incarceration in the United States. Mass incarceration is simply the term … Continue reading The Extent of Mass Incarceration
Ta-Nehisi Coats discussed growing up in America as a black man in his book Between the World and Me and two of the ideas he continually returned to were fear and not having control of ones body as a black man. Coats described the way that fear made its way into his daily life and manifested … Continue reading Music, Fear, Culture
When describing the attitudes of effective altruists in his book, The Most Good You Can Do, author Peter Singer examines empathy, and how empathy affects people within a community. Singer focuses on what empathy means and how it has become something worth focusing on in our lives today. In his book, the author uses a quote … Continue reading A Lack of Empathy