The first principle of psychological safety: The harder you make it to voice problems, the harder it becomes to solve them. The issues people are most afraid to raise are the most likely to become thorns in your side. It’s impossible to fix what you don't know is broken.

#AI is making it harder to tell who actually created what. That uncertainty is reviving #status markers we thought we’d moved past: if we can't judge the quality of the work, we look for (oft noisy) signals to judge the quality of the worker. tinyurl.com/d6endnv2 Toby Stuart

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” - (commonly attributed to) Mahatma Gandhi

We debate which decisions can be handed to #AI. Drawing on Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, Uzan Elad argues that AI will hit hard limits in abstract realms like ethics, facing truths it can’t prove or justify. Some domains must remain human turf (for now) aeon.co/essays/what-go…

This highlights one of the common misconceptions people often have about strategy: Strategy and execution are two sides of the same coin. You cannot have a good strategy without outlining specific, actionable, coherent set of actions required for execution/implementation.

How does #socialcapital impact the effect of #microfinance on #entrepreneurship? Just back from Oaxaca w/ my colleagues, where I saw firsthand how #trust, #reciprocity & #socialties shape firm outcomes in group lending. Excited to dive into the data, and to return to Oaxaca!

What would Alexis de Tocqueville have thought of X /#twitter

anyone using the Revelio scrape of LinkedIn for detecting educational history? I'm finding countless examples of mismapped university_raw/university_name fields--so many that I am writing my own parser of the 'raw' data.

“the painful stories about how people…blend their lives and livelihoods were absent. Titans of industry…talked about advancing the world through finance, technology….Family - the actual messy, delightful, treasured core of how must of us live - was fringe.” - Indra Nooyi

[seen on my walk to work today] Wow, tech anxiety is really heating up.

After Katrina, FEMA prioritized housing & rebuilding - but overlooked #socialcapital. Relocating residents far from home fragmented communities & eroded the culture that made New Orleans resilient. Policies that ignore bonds risk hollowing communities out. tinyurl.com/mrxpwuss

Why do we enjoy rhyme, pattern, repetition, symmetry, cycles? Linguist, poet, editor, musician, & former MIT associate provost Jay Keyser explains: The Pleasure of Patterns in Art thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-repetition… #Aesthetics #Art #CognitiveScience via The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social

As the #tradewar spreads to AI chips, Chinese #entrepreneurs and incumbents are racing to build alternatives to Nvidia. Backed by state support and big incentives, a surge of innovation is reshaping the #AI hardware race. The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/tech/ai/alibab…

“Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like.” - Anton Chekhov

🚀 STR Virtual Event 🚀 Meet the Editors: What does the rise of generative AI mean for research & publishing in Management? 📅 Sept 30, 9am ET 🔗 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Don’t miss this timely discussion on #AI & #ManagementResearch!

Just started "Anointed" by Toby Stuart and I’m hooked. A sharp, readable dive into how social #status shapes trust, inequality & opportunity - and how tech might alter these dynamics. And, very clear, relatable writing. Highly recommended. #sociology #strategy #Anointed

Very important graph. #entrepreneurship

Thrilled to present at West Coast Research Conference 2025. It was an honor to share my work with scholars whose research I’ve been building on for years. Huge thanks to the organizers! #WCRS2025 UW Foster School of Business Sara Mahabadi