Yvonne Lam: I started flipping through some of Daniel Chambliss' (*) articles, and wow: (*) He wrote "The Mundanity of Excellence", which I lean on to an embarrassing degree. academics.hamilton.edu/documents/bi...

I started flipping through some of Daniel Chambliss' (*) articles, and wow: (*) He wrote "The Mundanity of Excellence", which I lean on to an embarrassing degree. academics.hamilton.edu/documents/bi...

From Daniel Chambliss' "Big Problems Demand Small Solutions":

@justinthrelkeld.bsky.social I don't know if you've read Chambliss' work, but if not, you might enjoy it.

very much related: bsky.app/profile/grim...

This is such a nicely accessible discussion of social norms! Full cite: Petit, V., & Zalk, T. (2019). Everybody wants to belong: A practical guide to tackling and leveraging social norms in behavior change programming. New York, NY: UNICEF.

There are a lot of these kinds of nested problems in educational systems, where success is defined as “I don’t want to see this anymore”

A lot of the tech world is like this too.

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