Jay Van Bavel

Fun biography with great insights on leadership

Revisado: 07-06-24

Messier is one of the greatest leaders in NHL history for a reason—he understands culture and how it impacts collective success. Strongly recommend reading if you love hockey or want to understand how to makes teams and cultures better.

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A compelling analysis of the impact of social media on society

Revisado: 07-06-24

This was a deep and thoughtful analysis of how addictive technology is rewriting a generation. I am a social media researcher and I thought it was an excellent, accessible analysis that everyone should read in its entirety. Strongly recommend. Even if you don’t agree with everything, there is a lot here we should all be discussing.

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Fascinating book on the value of dissent

Revisado: 04-17-22

I’m the author of a book on group dynamics and was nevertheless intrigued by the new insights and studies shared in this book by Todd Kashdan. He explains why we should all care about dissenters—even when we disagree with them—because they unlock our own capacity to share our authentic beliefs and perspectives to make the world a bit better.

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Essential reading for navigating challenging people!

Revisado: 04-14-22

This book is full of hilarious stories about the jerks at work who drive us crazy and sabotage our performance. Tessa proves an easy how to guide for dealing with this people and restoring a healthy workplace.

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Good book, until the last chapter

Revisado: 12-24-21

This was a little dry, but otherwise fascinating critique of institutional rules. There were lots of interesting insights along the way, and the book peaked in the middle, but it went off the rails in the last chapter analyzing Batman and Bane (and presumably, Christopher Nolan’s politics).

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Good review of criticism, but a bit overstated at times

Revisado: 11-04-21

This is a very good analysis of some of the bad misapplications of psychology and behavioral science from a journalistic perspective.

The main limitation is that it invokes structural solutions to most social problems. While I agree this is often the right approach to address many big problems, it does not fully solve all the problems and most scientists (eg nudge researchers) would also agree with these solutions. They are not in opposition to the research, but often a complement.

Therefore, the critiques are making a straw man IMHO of the goals of some of the research and positions of the researchers themselves. If you can look past that rhetorical technique, the book itself is quite good.

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Useful, but over simplified and not based on any evidence

Revisado: 10-11-21

This book was easy to read and had some potentially useful advice, but all of the advice was just based on anecdote and personal opinion. There was no evidence that any of it would actually work. The book was also full of hyperbole and overstatement so it was hard to trust the author.

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