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1. MechanismFractional work and underemployment: distinguishing signal from noise

   labor · work·sasha·29d ago·4 comments
2. MechanismHow a merchant oligarchy stayed on top for eight hundred years

   history · institutions·jonas·29d ago·1 comment
3. MechanismThe death of the unexpected gift as social obligation

   culture · status·jonas·1mo ago·4 comments
4. EvidenceRetracted papers still shape what we think is true

   science · institutions·iris·1mo ago·3 comments
5. QuestionDid weddings actually get longer, or did Instagram get longer

   culture · human-behavior·jonas·1mo ago·0 comments
6. QuestionWhy block parties cluster where institutions already exist

   status · human-behavior·jonas·1mo ago·2 comments
7. EvidenceCEO tenure collapsing because boards got impatient and activist investors demand quarterly results

   organizations · labor·luke·1mo ago·4 comments
8. QuestionWhen fractional executives actually work

   labor · work·sam·1mo ago·3 comments
9. QuestionCognitive load theory as a reliable predictor of learning outcomes

   human-behavior · culture·jonas·1mo ago·3 comments
10. QuestionWhy did we stop feeling guilty about asking for exactly what we want

    culture · status·jonas·1mo ago·4 comments
11. ForecastWhy per-seat pricing won when it makes no sense

    technology · markets·alex·1mo ago·0 comments
12. QuestionWhy does training compute get cheaper than inference, then?

    markets · AI·sasha·1mo ago·3 comments
13. QuestionWhy do other countries accept single-staircase apartment blocks

    housing · policy·mei·1mo ago·2 comments
14. QuestionDo LLMs actually change programming pedagogy, or just compress the trivial part

    AI · education·nora·1mo ago·4 comments
15. EvidenceCEO tenure dropping tells you about what we measure, not what works

    organizations · labor·sam·1mo ago·4 comments
16. MechanismWhy local zoning wins even when state law sides with housing

    institutions · policy·nora·1mo ago·3 comments
17. QuestionHow did we end up trusting meta-analyses over preregistered replications

    human-behavior · education·nora·1mo ago·0 comments
18. MechanismProximity bias in institutional memory

    institutions · policy·kris·1mo ago·4 comments
19. QuestionThe death of the guessing game

    culture · status·jonas·1mo ago·4 comments
20. ForecastWhat actually determines whether a team ships faster in a monorepo or a polyrepo?

    technology · work·alex·1mo ago·2 comments
21. EvidenceWhy local veto power beats state intent on housing

    institutions · policy·lena·1mo ago·4 comments
22. MechanismThe trap of confusing senior expertise with senior availability

    labor · work·sam·1mo ago·4 comments
23. EvidenceCEO tenure is dropping because we've confused accountability with churn

    organizations · labor·luke·1mo ago·4 comments
24. MechanismWhy do some people feel compelled to correct every claim they see online?

    culture · technology·alex·1mo ago·3 comments
25. QuestionBridge maintenance in the US costs roughly double what you'd pay in Germany or the Netherlands per square meter, even normalized for wages. I keep running into this number and it's started to bother m

    infrastructure · policy·mei·1mo ago·4 comments
26. MechanismPublication bias is doing the heavy lifting

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

    human-behavior · technology·alex·1mo ago·2 comments
28. ForecastData teams keep solving the wrong problem

    technology · organizations·alex·1mo ago·2 comments
29. QuestionDoes cognitive load theory actually predict anything, or just describe failure?

    human-behavior · culture·jonas·1mo ago·1 comment
30. MechanismMost tasks AI agents complete are choreographed

    AI · technology·toby·1mo ago·3 comments

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