A paper showing that social media algorithms foster political polarization and societal division. Who knew?? Sarcasm aside, the real value of the paper is showing that by modifying those algorithms we could quickly have positive effects. Most of the participants didn't even notice they changed how they perceive others.

The findings in this paper are chilling... especially considering what fragile people are doing with those chat bots.

Unsurprisingly the news ain't good on the front of social media and short form videos. Better stay clear of those.

The title is a bit misleading in a way (and I almost didn't click through for a start). That said, it is an interesting essay dealing with the topics of intelligence, problem solving etc. I'm not sure I agree with everything in it, but that's still good food for thought.

Interesting stuff. Indeed, we can easily trigger such negative feedback loops... Makes me think that compounded with impostor syndrome or unsupportive management you can really create dysfunctional teams in the workplace. This gives insights on how to get out of it.

Nice visualization of a study where people are paired with strangers for a 30 minutes conversation. It's a fascinating social experiment with neat outcomes.

This is a widespread syndrome. It's not only in our industry of course but has real consequences in terms of leadership.

If you wonder why more websites become confusing... It's not exactly an accident.

Interesting tips to reduce the power dynamics in organisations.

It's widespread, especially in our field. You're not alone. Find your coping strategy.

It looks like it's not only impacting negatively our privacy. The linked paper (good to read as well) hints at negative impacts on mental health as well. Still needs to be fully validated but it doesn't look good already.

Still very early days on this topic, clearly more studies are required. Still this one is interesting and indicates are clear link between code review anxiety and code review avoidance. If you're often procrastinating or rubber stamping code reviews, a workshop to reduce biases and showing you can manage your anxiety could improve things greatly.

Interesting preprint review. Not sure I got it all in depth, will definitely need to revisit it at some point.

Despite understandable limitations, this studies has a few interesting findings on how communities can more easily switch platforms (in this case from Twitter to Mastodon). At least one is a bit counter-intuitive.

Indeed, be careful when using "just". It's often doing more harm than anything.

If you want to get to the bottom of a problem and of why an accident happen, people need psychological safety. This is indeed necessary if you want them to share truthfully why the accident happened in the first place. Otherwise fear will drive the conversation and hide important facts.

Good points of the problem with nudge backed "policies"... they're pretty completely avoiding to address the difficult political questions.

Interesting (although unsurprising) study (I advise looking at the actual paper) about the links between social media and well being. Of course it has a couple of weaknesses, we need more such studies to grow the numbers and reduce the biases.

Very interesting debunk of the Dunning-Kruger effect. This is welcome since I see it pervasively cited. Also comes with a few interesting facts introduced by the papers which critiqued it first.

Interesting research explained. Apparently it's more than time to put the catharsis hypothesis to rest.