Fortune cookie fortune, which reads “trust the journey on a Tuesday; it is leading you to greatness”

Big day today if anybody wants to pitch me an irresponsible investment or adventure

Why women in groups face a ‘collaboration penalty’ that solo female stars like Taylor Swift and Coco Gauff escape All-women groups, whether in sports, music or business, are consistently underpaid compared to men. They’re seen as more threatening to the status quo.

Studies involving venture capital, pro sports, healthcare & entertainment find all-women groups face a collaboration penalty that solo women & all-men groups escape. All women groups seen as more threatening & more likely to challenge power structures. theconversation.com/why-women-in...

Photo of a print column in the Economist. Highlighted text reads “Together, these form the demand signal, and this might be the defining asst of the AI-mediated information ecosystem. Not clicks. Not time spent. Those attention-economy currencies lose their worth in this paradigm.”

Very odd to see Claude’s writing ticks show up in a print copy of the Economist (ironically, in an article about AI 🙄)

Turns out Indianapolis airport is ORD’s mirror twin. Connecting through O’Hare is like being a salmon going over a hydro dam; this is a meditation spa in comparison 🤣

That’s how I view it as well - The Conversation was a great outlet that allowed me to reach a much wider audience with a project I cared about. So it allowed me to do what I’m already paid to do.

Millennial hustle culture

Thinking more about the Yale report. Parts of it are thoughtful. But Yale wants to make what is essentially a structural problem a question of behavioral one.

This is well said. I also found it to be thoughtful, but ultimately not helpful.

A 2x2 graph showing which tasks are automatable (simple, routine), and which still need deep human engagement (novel, complex).

Fantastic panel on the role of agentic AI in research, hosted by @strategicmgmt.bsky.social and Sukhun Kang, with @mattbeane.bsky.social, Gwendolyn Lee, @cgartenberg99.bsky.social, @joshgans.bsky.social. Image from Claudine Gartenberg. It's a new world (with lots of unanswered questions).

Color coded map of hummingbird migrations; with the birds appearing in Florida and Gulf states in early March, and northern/US Canada by early May.

Hummingbirds shouldn't be allowed to migrate this way. They're too small. It's too far.

Also bear in mind that ‘entrepreneurship and small businesses’ also includes artists, designers, musicians, writers, and other independent creative folks — this is a huge, systemic *cultural* loss as well as an economic loss.

“False certainty is dangerous; it rules out all possibilities but one and in essence surrenders to that imagined future.”

A screenshot of the TimeConverter App, which claims that 2216 days is 0 years, ten months, 16 weeks, and 4 days (because quote “days are smaller than years”)

There’s something off about this calculation but I can’t quite put my finger on it

Duo, the owl mascot of Duolingo, looking angry at me for breaking my streak

A weekly streak counter, showing my current streak length (2216 days)

I recently ended a six year (!!!) streak on Duolingo to try a language not available on the platform. I am definitely not going to miss being yelled at by a cartoon owl…but now playing with some of the alternatives, I also really appreciate how thoughtfully designed it is.

20 minutes till cameras! @bostonu.bsky.social #TEDxBU

Paper link: journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/... #entrepreneurship #education #AcademicSky #MGMTSky #HigherEd @aomconnect.bsky.social @giesbusiness.bsky.social

In other words, educators' individual design choices collectively reinforce the fragmented, low-paradigm state of the field. The strategies that help educators cope locally may perpetuate heterogeneity at the field level.

A correlation table showing 24 coded variables across the courses; e.g., type of university, instructor demographics, course topic focus, use of templates, etc. Correlations are very low across the board, showing little consolidation in terms of approach across courses studied.

The most surprising finding: despite facing the same dilemmas, educators mostly navigated them independently, with little coordination or guidance from peers. The result? A huge diversity of course designs — with almost no clustering into distinct "types."

A table displaying the core arguments of the paper; four strategies (leveraging ecosystems, delimiting scope, dual purposing course elements, and templating learning), with the underlying rationale and which dilemmas they map to. The middle rows of the table illustrate example tactics in the data - i.e., how each strategy manifests in the courses studied. The bottom rows of the table detail observed consequences at the student, educator, and field level.

Rather than just picking a side, educators drew from a repertoire of creative strategies: leveraging their local ecosystems, dual-purposing assignments to serve multiple goals at once, and using templates/frameworks to stretch limited class time.

We interviewed 27 educators and analyzed 86 course syllabi across 84 US institutions. We found three core dilemmas around a) learning outcomes, b) topic breadth, and c) delivery modality.

The paper explores how educators navigate teaching in fields fast-growing, low paradigm fields. We study entrepreneurship, but similar settings are AI, data science... too many options, rapidly changing knowledge base, no field-level consensus

Abstract, title, and author information for "Navigating pedagogical dilemmas when fields are in flux", by Douglas Hannah at the University of Illinois and Siobhan O'Mahony at Boston University.

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 "Navigating Pedagogical Dilemmas When Fields Are in Flux" w/ Siobhan O'Mahony (BU).
#AcademicSky #Education 🧵

Nothing stopping us from changing “et al” to “and the fellas”

Screenshot of the papertitle and abstract at the journal page: Beyond Spatial Proximity: The Impact of Enhanced Spatial Connectedness from New Bridges on Entrepreneurship, by Sunasir Dutta, Daniel Armanios, and Jaison Desai.

Digging into research on the geography of venture capital, and I am reminded how much I love this finding by Dutta, Armanios, and Desai (2022): New bridges 🌉 (real, not metaphorical) lead to more, and more industry-spanning, startups! pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...

+1. Very journal specific even within the same field

The word blurb was coined in 1906 by American humorist Gelett Burgess (1866–1951).[2] The October 1906 first edition of his short book Are You a Bromide? was presented in a limited edition to an annual trade association dinner. The custom at such events was to have a dust jacket promoting the work and with, as Burgess' publisher B. W. Huebsch described it, "the picture of a damsel—languishing, heroic, or coquettish—anyhow, a damsel on the jacket of every novel". In this case, the jacket proclaimed "YES, this is a 'BLURB'!" and the picture was of a (fictitious) young woman "Miss Belinda Blurb" shown calling out, described as "in the act of blurbing." The name and term stuck for any publisher's contents on a book's back cover, even after the picture was dropped and only the text remained.

The original Belinda Blurb

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

Quiet Friday afternoon #UIUC #Illini

I love this: things need not scale to merit investment.

“When innovation begins with the realities of people and landscapes, rather than with the assumption that solutions must scale, different possibilities come into view.”

A backstage shot of a green screen film studio; the stage is empty waiting for the presenter to step up

Cables coiled and machines whirring on the producers desk. Only his hands are visible behind a giant monitor

The studio crew leaning back in their chairs, with the stage in the background

A silly mugshot of me in front of the green screen. I’m on TV!

Day 1 in the studio under my belt! Up next: another 6 days of filming over the next month, two months of video editing and production, assignment design, and then the course goes live in July! Current enrollment: 65,000 😳