On the Road to a New Life, Part 2
Day 2 was much less eventful. But I did get pictures of our cat riding shotgun.
On the Road to a New Life, Part 1
Part 1 of the move involves the movers spending 12 hours packing (from 5PM to 6AM) charging us an extra $1400 over the estimate, a screaming cat, and general chaos. I’m sure it will be amusing in hindsight.
E-mail, The Game
This recent article in Wired discusses the work of Dr. Byron Reeves, who turned e-mail in an organization into a game. Each week, employees at the organizations he works with receive tokens which they can then attach to their e-mails, which they can then spend to make their e-mails more important.
Scientist-Practitioners in Video Gaming
One of the trumpeted concepts in SIOP is the idea of the scientist-practitioner: the I/O psychologist with one foot in rigorous academic research and the other working with real organizations on real problems. It’s...
Blog Migration and Changes
Several major changes have occurred at Thoughts of a Neo-Academic. We have moved from neoacademic.wordpress.com to neoacademic.com. The migration allows us to use custom features not possible at wordpress.com. If you are currently accessing...
Your College Exploits: Now Public Record
According to this recent article in the Chronicle, it has become common for college newspapers to put their full archives online, and as a result, anything you did in college that anyone ever wrote...