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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 2 Jun 2019
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      She said "no, my intuition is very good, and I can visualize anything." I told her about Banach-Tarski; she said "no, that's impossible, I can visualize it and it doesn't work." She did not believe her intuition could be false, since it had always served her so well.

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    2. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 2 Jun 2019
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      3. If they don't keep themselves in check, sometimes engineers think they're the only ones who do "real" work (because they make all the things), and sometimes sales people think they're the only ones who do "real" work (because they're the one who put money in the bank).

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    3. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 2 Jun 2019
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      4. @paulg's maker-manager divide around time is super important. Makers need uninterrupted blocks of time to work, and find meetings and responding to emails a distraction; managers' work *is* having meetings, and consider prompt replies a sign of professionalism.

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    4. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 2 Jun 2019
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      5. True creative work -- the kind where you start the day with a blank page, and your job is to put something on it, and you might not have made any progress by the end of the day -- sounds frivolous and easy to people who have never had to do it.

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    5. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 2 Jun 2019
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      6. For engineers, it's very natural to think "let's improve our performance by tracking our metrics!" For some bench biologists, tracking is seen as a sign of disrespect, or taking away their autonomy to make scientific judgments.

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    6. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 2 Jun 2019
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      Peter Drucker noted that each profession has a "professional ethic" -- there is something it means to be a good nurse, a good lawyer, a good engineer, a good pilot, and the values each profession holds sacred are different.

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    7. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 2 Jun 2019
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      When people identify with their profession's ethic, they need to uphold that ethic in order to do work they're proud of -- in other words, to be fulfilled and motivated. Good management, says Drucker, encourages this.

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    8. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 2 Jun 2019
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      However, in an interdisciplinary organization, if any *one* professional ethic dominates, the organization might fail. This is why Drucker says decisions should be made by people whose "profession" is management itself -- i.e., MBAs.

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    9. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 2 Jun 2019
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      I'm not sure this works either; it can all too easily mean "the professional culture of managers/MBAs is the best and deserves to dominate all the others" or even "organizations should be run by those with loose moral standards". See the book Moral Mazes for a negative view.

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    10. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 2 Jun 2019
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      I'm more inclined to think that interdisciplinary work requires people to do "cultural exchange" and learn about different perspectives and learn to get over the initial frustration of clashing styles.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 3 Jun 2019
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      You might find useful philosopher of science Peter Galison’s work on “trading zones,” which looks in detail at how this works in practice.

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