Frank Kotsianas

Engineer, social psychologist, teacher. Tools for schools, patients, and communities. Here to like my own tweets! @etsy @pivotallabs @hgse @cottageclass

[Frank Kotsianas @fkotsian]

If you would build a ship

Do not drum up people to collect wood

And don't assign them tasks and work

But teach them to long

For the endless immensity of the sea

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

This applies to everything

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@GergelyOrosz Honestly one of the most helpful diagrams I've seen on the topic

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@patio11 Well said sir!

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@ldavidmarquet Gold!

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@wcrichton The most critical function of a tutor is to Be There and Support The Student. Most human functions are functions of motivation rather than ability. People are capable of most anything if you can help them find it interesting 😄

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@wcrichton This is very true

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@krishnanrohit @nickcammarata Well said! Do you think an alternative/competitive informal school system (think: an alternative private school system, but cheaper), would help both sides of the debate grow by getting what they need? Or are there hidden risks to sth like that?

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@johncutlefish Platform is the Lego bricks, product is the finished castle (or pirate ship, or Millennium Falcon...)

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@optimuslebron @jhong @Purswell14 @wesyang V thought-provoking discussion. Wonder if what makes this question interesting is that EV is usually applied to repeatable games and this game is 1-shot - perhaps that's where someone's personal risk threshold can enter the mathematical equation?

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@GehaniNeil @shreyas Conductor of an orchestra is such a good metaphor!

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@johncutlefish Can you expand on this? My first thought is, "well, must be a sales-driven company - the user is not the purchaser" - but I wonder if you've seen explicit 2nd-order effects of not focusing on UX that will rear their heads in the long run? Eg even affecting code quality in the lt

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@johncutlefish This is it! A team works on 1 thing at a time, a working group works on many (would you say)? This definitely just made something click in my head

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@woodwardjd @johncutlefish This. And not sure how much team is in flow or how much team is actually getting done. Is 9 hi or low or avg for the team. Is team satisfied?

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@Niklas_L @tottinge Hadn't seen this and expands what I've been thinking on for my own practice, thanks!

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@MonotoneCrypto @5050isaloss @ercwl Funny, even crypto isn't immune to identity politics

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@anon3194 @zhusu @wclemente Not bad

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@MichePriest @johncutlefish What would that sort of team look like for you Miche? 😃

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@lovinmygirls218 @SixteenPizzas THANK YOU TWITTER!!!!!!

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@redditships @Blockanalia LOL

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@hpdailyrant Beautiful!

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@allenholub Stolen, seems like something that can very easily be implemented for improvement in modern Slack channels (and a great way to give kudos while radiating information at low cost!)