Tom Spencer

MARCH 15, 2024

The end result of this process will include the creation of intuitive interfaces that minimize cognitive load. A user-centric approach begins with immersive research into users, the creation of detailed personas, and continuous collection of user feedback to inform design decisions.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 19, 2019

All these possibilities create a cognitive load when people attempt to assess their work. Execution without cognitive load is much better than execution with that load. —to clean your backlogs so you don't have cognitive load every time you look at all the work. Or, even find the ideas.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 18, 2024

Eliminate the Backlog in At Least Two Ways Large backlogs create aging and a too-high cognitive load for managing that backlog. (I Assume you have fixed all the customer-reported or customer-facing problems. You still have a large backlog. We can file all those ideas into an electronic tool.

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Seth Godin Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

But it actually can feel like it costs a lot, because it comes with cognitive load, with decision making, with a feeling of power or futility or connection or loneliness. Tomorrow in the US is voting day. It apparently doesn’t cost anything to vote–just a few minutes of time.

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CaseInterview.com

OCTOBER 14, 2022

One of the things I’ve paid more attention to in the past several years is cognitive load. Cognitive refers to the brain. Load refers to workload. Cognitive load is how much work your brain has to keep track of and think about at any given time. Recognizing you have a cognitive load has several implications.

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Kai Davis

APRIL 14, 2021

When you’re less specific about who you want your referral sources (people, groups, organizations, colleagues, or clients) to refer to you, you offload the cognitive load of thinking through who would be an excellent fit to your referral source. , the thinner your referrals will get.

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Consultant Ninja

AUGUST 13, 2011

Whos the moron who thought this was a supportable debt load? Instant Cognition. ".126,000 of the countys 658,000 residents use the Jefferson County sewer system.Median household income in Birmingham is $31,704 a year." 126,000 x $31,704 = $4.0B. 3.1B / 126,000 = $24,729. Source: WSJ , Consultant Ninja Analysis. at 3:19 PM. Jon Peltier.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

The more you clean up after yourself right now, the less cognitive load you have when you return to read about this code or test later. (I wrote about this in Create Your Successful Agile Project.). Technical excellence helps each person consider the effects of what they do on the future product.

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Seth Godin Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2018

And the cognitive load is enormous. We ignore the real threats because they’re gradual and come wrapped in likes and smilies. We hesitate to commit. We over-commit. Of course we do. It’s a swirl. We’re still inventing cultural conventions and still defining rules of thumb. There’s a reason we get stuck in ruts.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

Social psychologists Laura Kiken and Natalie Shook, for example, have found that mindfulness predicts judgment accuracy and insight-related problem solving , and cognitive neuroscientists Peter Malinowski and Adam Moore found that mindfulness enhances cognitive flexibility. Compartmentalize your cognitive load.

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Seth Godin Blog

MAY 31, 2016

A huge savings in time, a decrease in the cognitive load of decision making. When someone handed you a calculator for the first time, it meant that long division was never going to be required of you ever again. You can use that surplus to play video games and hang out.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2016

When we multitask, our mind switches back and forth between different tasks, which hurts our productivity, creativity, and accuracy by increasing cognitive load and impairing memory. This can become a vicious cycle because increased levels of cortisol further impede our cognitive functioning, leading to even greater stress.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 28, 2017

” We thought the latter might force employees to be more cognitively alert and deliberative, which could lead them to behave more ethically simply by avoiding automatic, self-interested decision making. AAABBBCCC). Or they could switch more frequently (ABCABCABC), having more “sequential variety.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2018

Using a NASA Task Load Index , we identified clinicians with a very high mental, or cognitive, workload who continuously have to filter important information out of the cluttered environment. Compared to standard EHR interfaces, AWARE improves the cognitive performance, efficiency, and reliability of human decision makers.

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Seth Godin Blog

AUGUST 26, 2016

The policies reduce the cognitive load, eliminate temptation and let people get back to work. It's hard to imagine being a parent and being opposed to these boundaries and disincentives. Banks have a ton of policies designed to remove the temptation of their officers to engage in any sort of graft or corruption.

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Consultant Ninja

MAY 4, 2009

Your writing lavishes a preponderance of dependent clauses and compound negatives upon the reader, whose cognitive load not infrequently exceeds the purported benefit of the substance of the article. Instant Cognition. Getting Drunk in First Class. Excel / Analytics. Juice Analytics. Jon Peltier. Excel Keyboard Shortcuts.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Maintaining focus and managing energy levels become critical as tasks pile onto an already full load. This is critical, because, as research out of the University of Pittsburgh shows, anxiety directly impacts our cognitive functioning, especially those areas responsible for making sound decisions. ” You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Moreover, the cognitive load of attempting to appear colorblind when we all, of course, do notice difference can ironically result in more biased behaviors from white employees, or lead them to avoid the intergroup collaborations that can spark innovation and enrich their work.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 31, 2009

Most credit unions, and any smaller banks that didnt load up on a) subprime loans, or b) MBS/CDO securities. Instant Cognition. Major banks either got intoxicated themselves or merged with cancer banks. BoA even got 2 of those. March 31, 2009 at 9:52 PM. Consultant Ninja. March 31, 2009 at 10:03 PM. Anthony Jen. Excel / Analytics.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 17, 2018

A faculty member for six years, she had come to learn that she was not only underpaid but also had a higher teaching and clinic load than others in her group. She, like many women, accepted her job offer without negotiating. How common is Tara’s situation? Research suggests that 20% of women never negotiate at all.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 31, 2024

The older the work is, the more cognitive load people have, thinking about all that work. There are plenty of problems with these roadmaps or backlogs, but the biggest problem is they contribute to aging. See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter to Teams and Managers for more information.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 31, 2021

That limits the cognitive load and possibly the WIP for the team. Here's how I work with teams (management or product teams) to create their own boards. I start with paper. Start With a Paper Board. Yes, paper. Here's why I use paper: The wall or bulletin board limits the number of cards you can post.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

When dealing with stressed-out colleagues, you should think about ways to “reduce their cognitive load,” Webb says. Think about ways to reduce the person’s cognitive load by, for instance, breaking work up into more-manageable chunks. ” Break down your requests. Don’t: Judge.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2017

Human beings come pre-loaded with the cognitive gear to simply perceive these distinctions. Deep learning systems are modeled after the neural networks in the neocortex of the human brain, where higher-level cognition occurs. And some are now about as good at object and speech recognition as people.

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