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Founder & | Past SVP People Ops | Author "Work Rules!" | Advisor/investor | People/science/human rights/comic books

Mountain View, California
humu.com
Joined September 2014
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    29 Jan 2017

    That time I fled Communist Romania to a refugee camp in Austria, came to America, & years later became an exec creating 10ks of jobs

    Tell us your favorite travel memory - was it a picture, a souvenir, a sunset? We'd love to hear it!
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  2. 6 hours ago

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    This video is an example of the most annoying kind of LinkedIn post. A close second when is people write an Academy Award style speech after working at one tech company for 1.5 years to join another they’ll be leaving within the year.
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    Aug 30

    “We’re returning to the office because our culture is so important” The culture:

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    Sep 3
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    💯. I also tell managers to look at what caused any bad hires. I find at least some of the time, the found the exact person they were looking for, but realized later that wasn't what they wanted.

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    Sep 3

    "To fix the hiring process, we have to replace hubris with heuristics." From the archive this week: Hiring Isn’t Rocket Science: Why the Most Boring Strategy Is Best by

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  6. Aug 28

    What a difference 4 years - and your vote - can make. Photo taken at SFO on Jan 28, 2017

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    Aug 28

    Waiting & watching to see what others around you do first isn't , it's a lack of to follow your own instincts & .

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    Aug 27

    Google is genetically incapable of understanding the long-term enterprise sales and support cycle. Apparently that extends to it's offspring as well.

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  9. Aug 26

    Excited to chat with about his brilliant new book! He's a remarkable, human leader and I'm looking forward to learning from him!

    Ready, set, reset! Join & on 9/14 at 2 p.m., ET as they discuss how the pandemic shifted our workforce, & how HR leaders can reimagine & reinvent their company culture. Add to your calendar:
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  10. Retweeted
    Aug 24

    bringing the science on work from home. Lots of confounds we could ask about, but this kind of data-driven inquiry and rigor is one of the (many) things that makes Humu stand out as both a product and a workplace.

    "We also found that employees were 1.8 to 2.5 percentage points more productive on the days when they worked remotely."
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    Aug 22

    There's a rhetorical pattern in corp-friendly AI Ethics which we'd to well to call out more forcefully. Much of this work gives harrowing + precise diagnoses of AI harms while offering extremely vague "solutions" like "guardrails" or "oversight" or unspecified "regulation"

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    Aug 24

    I took a spin through Google/Waymo’s terms and privacy policy on the Waymo One app (self driving cars in SF). Here’s just some of crazy stuff you’re required to agree to /1

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    Aug 24

    Interesting evidence on work from home from , based on call center employees at a Fortune 500 company prepandemic. One or two work from home days a week, it seems, made people more productive both on their at-home and in-office days.

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  14. Aug 24

    "Interestingly, it didn’t seem to matter what day of the week they worked from home, challenging the common assumption that Friday WFH days are less productive than other days of the week. It also didn't matter whether their work-from-home day fell just before or after a holiday"

    How many days per week in the office leads to the highest levels of team performance and happiness? According to our proprietary research, a magic number might actually exist. ⬇️
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  15. Aug 24

    "We also found that employees were 1.8 to 2.5 percentage points more productive on the days when they worked remotely."

    How many days per week in the office leads to the highest levels of team performance and happiness? According to our proprietary research, a magic number might actually exist. ⬇️
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    Aug 23

    Lots of nuggets in this piece on Dan Ariely - Ariely did not have ethical approval to conduct a human subjects study with electric shocks - Anonymous collaborators level claims of p-hacking - Ariely uses his z-curve as a blanket defense of his work

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  17. Aug 21

    It's come to this

    You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it.
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    Aug 19

    Which nudges work best to improve clinical decision-making? With lead author Dr. , we systematically reviewed 39 studies of clinician-focused nudges. Most effective nudge types were: 🖼️ info framing ➡️ defaults 🔢 enabling choice More deets in blog post ⬇️

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    Aug 20
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    but if he somehow got his job back they can’t fire him again. that’s double Jeopardy

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    Aug 16
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    What I learned is that if you're battery level is below 20% Uber and Lyft will purposely hike up the prices because they believe you'll be desperate enough to take it since you're battery levels are low

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    Aug 16

    High turnover, the shift to hybrid work, and continued uncertainty about the future mean that even your tenured team members may be feeling unmoored. Our Head of Content writes in about what managers can do.

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