“Some things need to become enormous to survive. Other things survive because they never needed to become enormous.”

Wonderful piece by Donna Harris on pitch competitions in entrepreneurship: They reward the wrong things, but we just can't quit them (h/t to @vanishingcorp.bsky.social) buildersfieldguide.substack.com/p/breeding-c...

I think it's under-appreciated how much user-hostile recipe sites and news articles smothered in pop-ups and video ads have negatively polarized the average normie against the open web, and helped to drive adoption of AI as an alternative way to get basic information

re-upping this in light of the very amusing Granta fiasco

I've never liked the phrase "kill your babies" as a piece of writing advice, but oooof, it sure does hurt to watch paragraphs that took days to craft end up on the cutting room floor

Sure the world is in tatters and gas is $75/gallon but I just bought four Brother ink cartridges for $25, for a 10 year old printer that's still going strong?

Sharing a good friend's Kickstarter. Erin is a designer and illustrator; her book Girl Math is gorgeous and offers accessible advice to folks (esp. young women) who weren't taught about or feel overwhelmed by personal finances. www.kickstarter.com/projects/eri...

Watching “Chef” starring Jon Favreau has led me, inevitably, back to the greatest restaurant review of all time www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros...

A female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the train with an observer. In the experimental condition, an additional experimenter dressed as Batman entered from another door. Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%).

My mother spent much of her career as a florist, which made Mother’s Day a mixed bag for her (looong days and too much work). So this year when my 6yo and I made paper flowers with the tagline, “no florists were harmed in the making of this arrangement” 😜

A gorgeous, quiet grey day in @giesbusiness.bsky.social during oops-no-finals week. #illini

Rereading Edward Abbey’s “Down the River” to prep for a float trip at the end of the month, and delighted to find a perfect start to the preface: “For me, this floating began near home…my brother Hoots and I built a boat. To be honest, we didn’t build it, we stole it. Nor was it exactly a boat.”

"That's kind of a wild thing," said one man at South Station. "I think the researchers might be a little bored over at UCLA."

One underappreciated value of coding your own interviews from transcripts by hand is the self-coaching potential it brings. It can be annoying & challenging, but really lays bare the potential bad habits & mistakes that you still make, no matter the level of experince. We all have our blindspots.

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

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...

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 🤣

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.

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).

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.”

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

🚨 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”

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/...

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.”

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 😳

🔥 🤣 www.businessinsider.com/meta-metaver...

Prepping for a day in the studio tomorrow by Googling how to pronounce all the names and terms I foolishly wrote into my scripts 😭

Recently accepted by #QJE: “Peer Effects and the Gender Gap in Corporate Leadership: Evidence from MBA Students,” by Hampole (@mhampole.bsky.social), Truffa (@francescatruffa.bsky.social), and Wong (@ashleyywong.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Deep into scripting recorded, asynch lectures for my online MBA class. I might have been staring at the computer for too long, but I am SO EXCITED to have these out in the world.

Digging into source materials as I revise my MBA entrepreneurship course, and finding there to be a really surprising delta between eship *research* (at least what I see) and eship *textbooks*. Like, totally different ways of conceptualizing the phenomenon & process

Back in Austin for ATEC. We started this in 2016 (10 YEARS AGO!) to provide a developmental space for junior scholars to share work. Pretty weird to find myself one of the more senior people in the room 😅

Important considerations if you're collecting data on online platforms such as Prolific. www.science.org/content/arti...

Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...

We're delighted to announce the theme for QRS 2026: Creating, Negotiating, and Challenging Boundaries in Qualitative Research 💡 We will ponder important questions around participation, access and inclusion in qualitative research. Submit abstracts here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/bathreg/qr...

🚨New paper alert!🚨 Women are less likely to enter competitions than men—even when equally qualified. But telling them this can change behavior. 📈 In a field experiment on a job application platform, we found that highlighting this gender gap increased the # of job apps women submitted by ~20%.

"I have an uneasy feeling, for instance, that if the computer had been around at the time of Copernicus, nobody would have bothered with him, because the computers could have handled the Ptolemaic epicycles with perfect ease" - Kenneth Boulding, 1966 (found in Davies' The Unaccountability Machine)

If you’re in #Boston tonight, you’ve got 4 more hours to look across the river at the gazetothestars.com installation at #MIT looking back at you

Cambridge Bike Give Back is great and Lonnell is a fantastic founder. I was happy to see my much loved (but no longer needed) mountain bike find a new and better home through him.

Had a great time on the Business Talk podcast with Deepak Bhatt. We talk about my research on the dangers of prototyping in tech ecosystems (and some best practices too) youtu.be/NXHyT8uWWco #entrepreneurship #mgmtsky

Our dept (Entrepreneurship & Strategy) at U of Utah is hiring a Post Doc for a July 2025 start. If you are graduating this Spring with a PhD in Strategy or Economics (or related fields) please see the posting and apply! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/178...

Got the 2nd R&R! Celebrate the small wins 💪 🎉

Developing a list of Org Scholars and Scholarship. Let me know if you would like to be added!!! @aomconnect.bsky.social @aomsim.bsky.social @orgscience.bsky.social @orgstudies.bsky.social @orgtheory.bsky.social @conflictmanagement.bsky.social