Alex Moore
@awmoore
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At @boomerang and @gqueues building the future of productivity. MIT '05. Aspirational chef. Goofy dad. Loudest Bama fan in Bryant-Denny every few years.
Berkeley, CA, USA
Joined April 2008
A risk of selling @gqueues to us was we might start making ridiculous videos that impact brand perceptions. That day has arrived. 😂 https://t.co/Kqm9nBVsmc
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Here's a lot more words from @ayemoah and me about how these ideas have shaped how we communicate at @boomerang
https://t.co/92hyG2aDZp
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Episode 11 explores finding a smarter balance for communication as chat and virtual meetings partially supplant email
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But new research that builds on Media Richness Theory shows that the richness of a channel isn't fixed. Instead, as your relationship with other people deepens, the richness of whatever channel of communication you use grows. That makes sense intuitively, because as you get to
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One of the things I worried about when we first went remote is that we would suffer from defaulting to much less rich communication channels. A framework called Media Richness Theory emerged in the 1980s to study how differences in communication medium shaped the amount of
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I still miss the office, but one silver lining is that our company's Slack has organically grown into a richer communication channel as time goes on. A theory called channel expansion theory explains why this happens and how it helps make remote work, well, work. 🧵
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The directive from on high to "AI EVERYTHING" is ruining Gmail. I do not want every sentence I write to get underlined so AI can "make it more concise" for me. I do not want giant banners that block my Inbox for every item in every Amazon order I make.
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Vivid verification of the long-known econometric studies showing that the main effect of government throwing money into student loans was to raise the price of tuition dollar for dollar.
Santa Clara is one of the first law schools to publish 2026-27 tuition. Historically, Grad PLUS loans have had no limits. Starting next year, professional school borrowing will be capped at $50k/year. Notice anything about the trend in tuition? I expect many schools to copy this.
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Excited to learn what kind of deal we've struck with our great authoritarian rival to safeguard the app they built that makes us all hate each other. https://t.co/kmFte74GsL
“The big Trade Meeting in Europe between The United States of America, and China, has gone VERY WELL! It will be concluding shortly. A deal was also reached on a ‘certain’ company that young people in our Country very much wanted to save...” - President Donald J. Trump
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To learn more, listen to Episode 7 of Less Busy Lab wherever you get your podcasts, or subscribe here!
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Subscribe for guidance on getting the right things done faster while feeling less busy, from Moah and Alex, makers of Boomerang. Click to read Less Busy Lab, by Moah and Alex, a Substack publication....
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Getting into Flow state's not easy. You need: * A perfect balance between challenge and skill * A long enough period of time to get into the state * An absence of distractions * A consistent feeling of progress
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Can you imagine working on something so intensely that you don't even realize there's a battle going on? Psychologists call that state Flow, and you can harness it too. A McKinsey study found that when you're working in flow, you're about 5x as productive as you normally are.
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But the legends tell that Archimedes was so focused on a problem of geometry that he did not even realize the city had fallen. When Roman soldiers entered his home, he confronted them, yelling "Do not disturb my circles!" They scuffled, and Archimedes was killed.
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In 212 BC, the Romans took the city of Syracuse after a long siege. The Romans had been ordered to capture, not kill, the legendary mathematician. Archimedes was known for inventing war machines, and the Romans wanted some of those too.
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Archimedes is best known for running naked through Syracuse yelling "Eureka!" after figuring out the volume of an object is equal to the volume of water it displaces. But there's another famous story that explains his genius - and you can tap into that same superpower. 🧵👇
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Lots more about how to get the most out of checklists in Episode 6 of Less Busy Lab. https://t.co/ug4J9lH0Go
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In Episode 6, Alex and Moah trace the origin and history of a simple productivity tool that transformed aviation safety, helped land humans on the Moon, slashed surgical fatalities by 47 percent, and...
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Checklists are the lightest-weight project management tool in the toolbox. But what separates an effective checklist (the kind of thing that can reduce surgical dealths by 47%) from a dud (nobody uses it)? Three things. More below the fold, podcast episode link in reply 👇
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