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Episode 9: What Are Heuristics?
I have a confession to make. It took me years to understand the concept of heuristics. I don’t know why. I mean, I’m a smart guy, who obviously understands this economic mumbo-jumbo far better than the ordinary person. And heuristics is/are one of the foundational…
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The Intersection of Multitasking, Flow State and Mindfulness on the Human Tech Podcast
You’ve probably heard (maybe too many times) how multitasking is not a good thing for your productivity. In this episode of Human Tech we share the myths and truths of multitasking and also explore the relationship between multitasking, the flow state, and mindfulness. In the…
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Episode 8: Time Discounting and Time Preference
How humans perceive time is a tricky question, and one that I am not going to answer today. Too much unknown and unexplored psychology and not enough behavioral economics. Maybe how humans perceive time is a more interesting question, I’m not sure. But what is…
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Design In Sweden
In this podcast episode we talk with Johan Berndtsson about design and business in Sweden. Johan invites listeners to submit suggestions for speakers for his next “From Business To Buttons Conference” and also invites people to come do design work in Sweden. Throughout the podcast…
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How do you build a culture of trust?
How’s the trust quotient where you work? Or in the country where you live? How do you build a culture where people trust each other? We talk about the research on cooperation, punishment and trust in this episode of Human Tech. For more details on…
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Episode 17: Cooperation and Punishment
Did you go to college? Hopefully a liberal arts college? Even if you didn’t, think back to some late night with your buddies, maybe a little weed was smoked. Or in some dopy poly-science class with the one know-it-all jerk who would always shoot up…
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Episode 7: How Using the Ultimatum Bargaining Game Proves That Cultures of Trust Require Public Retaliation (NOT Altruism)
Game theory. Or should I sayyy LAME THEORY. Ayyyyyyy…. This post is about one small game, the ultimatum bargaining game, that’s useful in explaining the tools behavioral scientists can use to measure the reactions of other humans. Did you ever watch the (now old) movie…
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Nick Fine’s UX Psychology rant on the latest episode of the Human Tech podcast
Has the field of user experience (UX) been invaded and co-opted by designers? Has it lost its way from its original roots in Psychology? Nick Fine says “YES!”. In this episode of the Human Tech podcast we have a spirited conversation with Nick about his…
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Why You Should Kanban Your Life: An Interview With Amii LaPointe
In this episode of the Human Tech podcast we bring Amii LaPointe on the show. Amii is a Professor at the Milwaukee School Of Engineering where she teaches User Experience. We talk about the “old” days of writing documentation manuals, and her experiment in “kanbaning”…
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Episode 6: Using the idea of “utility” to calculate “value”
Economics gets a bad reputation for being wrong about things, or only measuring things in terms of dollars or GDP (gross domestic product). But most of these “bad raps” are simply because people don’t understand what economics is, and what it is actually capable of.…
