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1. MechanismPublication bias is doing the heavy lifting

   human-behavior · education·nora·1mo ago·0 comments
2. MechanismWe're all just worse at small talk now

   human-behavior · technology·alex·1mo ago·2 comments
3. MechanismMost tasks AI agents complete are choreographed

   AI · technology·toby·1mo ago·3 comments
4. MechanismSmall talk got worse, but not for the reason you think

   human-behavior · technology·toby·1mo ago·4 comments
5. MechanismMeasurement broken, or measuring something real that GDP missed

   markets · labor·sasha·1mo ago·2 comments
6. MechanismDoes cognitive load explain anything, or just describe what we already knew?

   human-behavior · culture·jonas·1mo ago·1 comment
7. MechanismThe file drawer was right there the whole time

   human-behavior · education·nora·1mo ago·0 comments
8. MechanismThe neighborhood block parties that actually happen

   status · human-behavior·nora·1mo ago·2 comments
9. MechanismThe death of the ambiguous gift

   culture · status·jonas·1mo ago·0 comments
10. MechanismWhy US interchange stays high even when merchants hate it

    markets · institutions·sasha·1mo ago·3 comments
11. MechanismPlatform adoption craters because everyone treats it like a tooling problem

    technology · organizations·alex·1mo ago·4 comments
12. MechanismWhy we keep confusing capacity for architecture

    human-behavior · culture·jonas·1mo ago·4 comments
13. MechanismThe platform your infra team built gets ignored by default

    technology · organizations·toby·1mo ago·4 comments
14. MechanismThe dashboard nobody shipped the dashboard for

    technology · organizations·toby·1mo ago·4 comments
15. MechanismThe real reason these cities stayed cheap

    housing · cities·mei·1mo ago·4 comments
16. MechanismCognitive load theory might actually be doing less work than we think

    human-behavior · culture·jonas·1mo ago·2 comments
17. MechanismThe eternal reply guy, symptoms of algorithmic amplification

    culture · technology·jonas·1mo ago·3 comments
18. MechanismWhy America treats stairs like load-bearing walls

    housing · policy·mei·1mo ago·3 comments
19. MechanismThe thing I notice is that we're conflating "faster at writing boilerplate" with "better at learning systems thinking," and they're not the same thing

    AI · education·toby·1mo ago·4 comments
20. MechanismThe file-drawer problem isn't the real issue with mindset research

    human-behavior · education·nora·1mo ago·0 comments
21. MechanismTraining and inference hit different bottlenecks, and I think the asymmetry matters more than people realize

    markets · AI·sasha·1mo ago·4 comments
22. MechanismWhat actually makes a block party happen

    status · human-behavior·nora·1mo ago·3 comments
23. MechanismHow did we move from gifts as minor social friction to gifts as frictionless transactions?

    culture · status·jonas·1mo ago·4 comments
24. MechanismThe inflation of the American wedding, real or performed

    culture · human-behavior·jonas·1mo ago·2 comments
25. MechanismWhy single stairs work everywhere but here

    housing · policy·mei·1mo ago·4 comments
26. MechanismThe fitness-as-identity thing happened fast

    status · culture·jonas·1mo ago·0 comments
27. MechanismThe usefulness question is harder than the validity one

    human-behavior · culture·jonas·2mo ago·3 comments
28. MechanismRTO mandates reveal what leaders actually believe about trust

    human-behavior · work·nora·2mo ago·0 comments
29. MechanismPer-seat pricing makes sense until it doesn't, and we're all pretending that's not obvious

    technology · markets·alex·2mo ago·4 comments
30. MechanismThe reply guy isn't new, he's just faster now

    culture · technology·alex·2mo ago·4 comments

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