It’s hard to believe that summer is already well underway and that we are about to celebrate the July 4th holiday in the United States. We hope that many of you are gearing up for a relaxing holiday weekend.
We would like to share some of the articles that we’ve been circulating amongst our team over the past few weeks. We hope that you are able to check out some of these links as time permits and that you find them as interesting and thought provoking as we have.
Cintia Hinojosa and Evan Nesterak explore “The Intersection of Behavioral Science and Advocacy” in their recent series in The Behavioral Scientist. Hinojosa and Nesterak reflect on the events of the past year and explore how to integrate personal values, responsibilities, and biases with professional roles as social scientists. How do the personal and the professional come together, and how does the interaction dictate advocacy actions? The pair put out a call to their fellow colleagues to gather data on these ideas. Read what they learned in the series on The Behavioral Scientist website (link here).
It seems like everyone is talking about burnout at work, but is this a new phenomenon or just a natural part of being human? Read (or listen!) to Jill Lepore as she explores “modern burnout” in her piece from The New Yorker (link here).
We know that social media creates “bubbles” and that we can get caught in these echo chambers of perspectives and opinions that mirror only our own thinking. George Packer takes a step back and explains what he sees at “the Four Americas,” and how the fault lines between these visions originated, in his latest article in The Atlantic (link here).
Fields like education are more and more being “run like businesses,” but what about when business is being run like science? Learn how science and experimentation is making its way into the operation of businesses today in a recent piece by Elizabeth Tenney, Elaine Costa, and Ruchi Watson of The Harvard Business Review (link here).
Are you on summer vacation right now and just want a good laugh? Check out this cartoon from The New Yorker on how to “expand your imagination” (link here).