Post #4204092

2026-07-29 15:51 UTC

A huge, huge pet peeve of mine as an intervention scientist is "checklists" or "codes" that just say: "having a problem? Don't" I loathe them. Stuff like, "never get lost, always know where you are" ok like that is not solving the getting lost problem

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@grimalkina@mastodon.social 2026-07-29 15:51

To be frank, too many tech expertise collectives think they can just intuit their way to intervention science and never research what creates an effective behavioral intervention or comm. Getting a lecture in bullet points reduced to such a high generalization there's no process detail isn't it.

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@anEXPer@mastodon.social 2026-07-29 21:05

@grimalkina@mastodon.social I promise I'm not just linking everything you say to Weinberg; it's just, he was marvelously important to me and you say and develop on a lot of the things missing from conversations as his voice fades, so to speak. In _Becoming a Technical Leader_, he describes this as "no-problem syndrome;" a person describes a problem, their interlocutor says "no problem," offers a solution - but cannot articulate the problem that is being had, only whatever solution their mind is locked into.

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