Digital twins are cheaper, faster, and useless for decisions
LinkedIn Sent
This is a LinkedIn-shortened URL — the destination could not be resolved without a live redirect.
SHELF No. 12
Better Research
Methods, trends, tools and workflows for finding shit out.
PREVIOUSLY FILED
Teaching Students to Follow an Idea
JSTOR Daily Sent
“The goal is not simply to find more sources, but to experience research as an act of following knowledge.”
How to be a word detective
Psyche Sent
“You can learn so much just by listening to how you and the people around you speak.”
In Search of Mainstream — YouTube Culture & Trends Report
YouTube Sent
Mainstream culture is alive but transformed, driven by niche fan communities, superfan passion, and platform-fuelled crossover moments.
Lie Predictor
Lie Predictor Sent
Are we on the cusp of an ethnographic rebirth?
Ethnographic Mind Sent
I often repeat, to anyone who will listen, that the future is explaining people to other people. The AI Era, with all of its hidden computations, will only make that more true.
Is Qualitative Research Having a Comeback?
Jennifer Fuqua Filed
AI can synthesize what we already know. It cannot sit at a kitchen table and notice what everyone else missed.
Don't Quant the Qual
LinkedIn Sent
The reason we have qual and quant separate is because qual is bad at counting things.
CTRL+WATCH
CTRL+WATCH Sent
A magazine that reviews YouTube the way Edge reviewed games and Spin reviewed records. Ranked lists of creators. Very f'ing useful and cool.
No, the iPhone (probably) didn't lower the birth rate
Data for Health (Substack) Sent
“Besides the iPhone, what else was happening from 2008-2011? The Great Recession.”
Most Mixed Methods Researchers Aren't
Saeideh's Newsletter Sent
It also shows your awareness and maturity in your practice that you can name where you are strong and when you need help from an expert.
Synthetic Personas Aren't the Enemy
LinkedIn Sent
Are we going to define how they should be used or let someone else define it for us?
Do not 'do research'
Meet the 85% Sent
“The more something feels like research, the more it can distance you from what you’re actually trying to understand.”
The wicked work that surfaces when AI unbundles research
Saeideh Bakhshi's Substack Sent
“Senior researchers earn their seniority by recognizing when a framing is unstable or a method is going to mislead, and by being willing to absorb the social cost of saying so.”
Research papers on synthetic users walk back their claims
LinkedIn Sent
They are not the voice of the customer.
Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got "Trendslop" in Return.
Harvard Business Review Sent
“This propensity for AI to opt for buzzy ideas over reasoned solutions is called "trendslop," and leaders should beware of it warping their strategic planning.”
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We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask
The New York Times Sent
The space between a question and an answer has value, and that value should not be engineered away.
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Will AI kill the research paper?
Marginal REVOLUTION Sent
“It is funny, and tragic, how much some of you are still obsessed with writing and publishing “papers.”
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Just Enough Research
Erika Hall Sent
Rather than piling on the costs, research can save you and the rest of your team a ton of time and effort.
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Just Enough Research — Book Summary
Ananda Vickry Pratama Sent
The summary per chapter in “Just Enough Research”