Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Technology and Social Behavior @ Northwestern University
Continuing the yearly tradition I started last January, here is my 2009 word cloud, made using wordle.net from the text of the blog posts I wrote in 2009. The most common words don’t look too different from the 2008 wordle!
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from the NY Times a couple days ago: “Taking Time for the Self on the Path to Becoming a Doctor“. good advice that applies even if you’re training to be the non-medical kind:
“It’s partly a coping mechanism,” Dr. Ratanawongsa said. “We tell ourselves that we can do everything but not at the same time, so [...]
well, the paper is submitted. but man, i NEVER want to do that again. and by “that” i mean write a single-author paper in about a week. i’d been working on analysis (along with all my other dissertation- and work-related stuff) for months, but when we returned from the holiday weekend — where i tried [...]
you really can make yourself feel happy simply by thinking happy thoughts. if you don’t believe me, here are just a couple of references from the psychology literature:
Sheldon & Lyubomirsky (2006). How to increase and sustain positive emotion: The effects of expressing gratitude and visualizing best possible selves. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1(2): 73–82
Murray, [...]
an article i read recently (via ghetto of our mind) has been on my mind for a couple of days. the article is, “The importance of stupidity in scientific research“, by Martin Schwartz. i am reminded of the beginning of the movie “Jerry Maguire”, where Jerry writes a mission statement titled, “The Things We [...]
