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Habit & Behavior Change
The Habit Scorecard is an awareness exercise developed by James Clear where you list every action you perform during a typical day—from the moment you wake up until you go to sleep—and rate each as positive (+), negative…
Habit FormationHabit & Behavior Change
Susan Michie's Behavior Change Wheel (BCW) synthesizes 19 frameworks into one unified model
Motivation ScienceHabit & Behavior Change
The abstinence violation effect (AVE), identified by Alan Marlatt, describes the cascade when someone committed to abstinence has a single lapse
Addiction & RecoveryHabit & Behavior Change
Marlatt's Relapse Prevention reframes relapse from unpredictable catastrophe to predictable process with identifiable warning signs
Addiction & RecoveryHabit & Behavior Change
Christakis and Fowler's Framingham Heart Study network data revealed behaviors spread through social networks: if a friend becomes obese, your risk increases 57%
Environmental DesignHabit & Behavior Change
The Two-Minute Rule for habits states that any new habit should be downsized until done in two minutes or less
Habit FormationHabit & Behavior Change
The default effect is among the most powerful behavioral phenomena: people overwhelmingly accept pre-set options, with acceptance rates of 70-90%
Environmental DesignHabit & Behavior Change
The behavior change communication ladder maps stages from awareness to sustained change: Awareness (learning behavior exists), Knowledge (understanding why it matters), Attitude (developing favorable feelings), Intention…
Motivation ScienceHabit & Behavior Change
Wolfram Schultz discovered that dopamine signals the difference between expected and actual rewards, not pleasure itself
Addiction & RecoveryCivic & Political Participation
Deliberative democracy theory (Habermas, Fishkin) argues legitimate political decisions require substantive deliberation where citizens exchange reasons, consider opposing viewpoints, and potentially revise positions—not…
Democratic ModelsCivic & Political Participation
Mancur Olson's collective action dilemma explains why groups with shared interests often fail to act: when benefits are shared (public goods) but costs fall on participating individuals, rational self-interest predicts f…
Collective ActionCivic & Political Participation
Albert Hirschman identifies two fundamental responses to organizational decline: Exit (leaving—switching products, quitting, emigrating) and Voice (speaking up—complaining, organizing, protesting)
Collective ActionCivic & Political Participation
Civic republicanism (Pettit, Skinner) defines freedom not as non-interference (liberalism) but as non-domination—freedom from arbitrary power of others, even if never exercised
Democratic ModelsCivic & Political Participation
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process where community members directly decide how to allocate public budget
Institutional EngagementCivic & Political Participation
Saul Alinsky's community organizing model centers on building relational power through one-on-one conversations, identifying shared self-interest, and taking collective action against specific targets
Collective ActionCivic & Political Participation
Political opportunity structure (POS) theory explains why movements emerge when they do—not when grievances intensify but when political openings appear
Collective ActionCivic & Political Participation
Resource mobilization theory (McCarthy and Zald) argues movements depend less on grievance intensity and more on available resources: money, organizational infrastructure, professional activists, media access, and politi…
Collective ActionCivic & Political Participation
Coalition building strategically assembles diverse organizations around a shared objective, pooling resources and legitimacy
Institutional EngagementCivic & Political Participation
Trust in institutions follows an asymmetric pattern: builds slowly through consistent performance but collapses rapidly through scandal or perceived betrayal
Institutional EngagementCivic & Political Participation
Media literacy encompasses critical skills for evaluating media messages
Media LiteracyCivic & Political Participation
The propaganda detection framework identifies techniques for manipulating public opinion, updated from the 1930s Institute for Propaganda Analysis
Media LiteracyCivic & Political Participation
Sherry Arnstein's Ladder of Citizen Participation arranges eight levels: Manipulation and Therapy (non-participation disguised as engagement), Informing, Consultation, and Placation (tokenism—heard but not heeded), and P…
Democratic ModelsCivic & Political Participation
This framework distinguishes electoral action (voting, campaigning, running for office) from non-electoral action (organizing, litigation, direct action, boycotts, cultural production, mutual aid)
Institutional EngagementCivic & Political Participation
Grassroots organizing builds power bottom-up through mass participation (rallies, petitions, door-knocking)
Collective ActionCivic & Political Participation
The digital activism effectiveness model evaluates when online actions translate to real-world impact versus 'slacktivism.' Morozov argues digital tools create efficacy illusions (petitions, profile changes) substituting…
Media LiteracyDigital Life & Information Hygiene
Cal Newport's digital minimalism focuses online time on carefully selected activities strongly supporting your values, happily missing everything else
Attention EconomyDigital Life & Information Hygiene
Tim Wu's 'attention merchant' framework describes the business model of capturing human attention cheaply and reselling it to advertisers
Attention EconomyDigital Life & Information Hygiene
Shoshana Zuboff's surveillance capitalism describes an economic system built on extracting and commodifying human behavioral data
Attention EconomyDigital Life & Information Hygiene
The information diet framework (Clay Johnson) applies nutritional principles to information consumption: the information economy produces cheap, attention-grabbing content causing 'information obesity'—simultaneously ove…
Digital MinimalismDigital Life & Information Hygiene
Two-factor authentication (2FA) requires two independent verification types: something you know (password), something you have (phone, key), or something you are (biometric)
Privacy & SecurityDigital Life & Information Hygiene
Privacy is not merely individual preference but social infrastructure enabling trust, experimentation, dissent, and identity development
Privacy & SecurityDigital Life & Information Hygiene
Platform cooperativism (Scholz, Schneider) proposes digital platforms owned democratically by users and workers rather than venture capital
Platform DynamicsDigital Life & Information Hygiene
Eli Pariser's filter bubble describes personalized information ecosystems from algorithmic curation: platforms show content aligned with existing interests, creating invisible intellectual isolation
Platform DynamicsDigital Life & Information Hygiene
Algorithmic feed management deliberately curates your algorithmic inputs to shape what platforms show you
Attention EconomyDigital Life & Information Hygiene
Digital declutter systematically eliminates accumulated digital excess
Digital MinimalismDigital Life & Information Hygiene
A screen time audit objectively measures device usage patterns against intended usage using built-in tracking (iOS Screen Time, Android Digital Wellbeing, RescueTime)
Attention EconomyDigital Life & Information Hygiene
Notification triage applies medical triage logic to digital interruptions, categorizing into four tiers: Tier 1/Immediate (time-sensitive: emergency calls, critical alerts), Tier 2/Scheduled (important but batchable 2-3…
Digital MinimalismDigital Life & Information Hygiene
A structured social media detox involves: (1) Pre-assessment (log usage, note emotional states, identify what you'd miss), (2) Complete abstention 7-30 days (delete apps, use blockers), (3) Active substitution (replace w…
Digital MinimalismDigital Life & Information Hygiene
Digital legacy planning manages your digital presence, accounts, and data after death or incapacitation
Privacy & SecurityDigital Life & Information Hygiene
Password hygiene follows three principles: uniqueness (every account gets a different password so one breach doesn't cascade), complexity (resisting brute-force attacks), and management (human memory replaced by password…
Privacy & SecurityDigital Life & Information Hygiene
A personal threat model assesses what you're protecting (assets), who might want it (adversaries), how they might get it (attack vectors), consequences of compromise (impact), and proportionate protections (countermeasur…
Privacy & SecurityDigital Life & Information Hygiene
Data minimization holds that you should collect, share, and retain only minimum data necessary for a specific purpose—deleting when fulfilled
Privacy & SecurityCivic & Political Participation
The Overton Window describes the range of policies politically acceptable to mainstream voters at any given time
Democratic ModelsCareer & Professional Development
Cal Newport argues that 'follow your passion' is dangerously misleading
Career CapitalCareer & Professional Development
Scott Adams proposes that you don't need to be world-class at any single skill—instead, combine two or three 'pretty good' skills that rarely overlap
Career CapitalCareer & Professional Development
The T-shaped professional has deep expertise in one domain (vertical stroke) combined with broad knowledge across disciplines (horizontal stroke)
Career CapitalCareer & Professional Development
Borrowed from Buffett's 'economic moat' concept, a career moat is a set of durable competitive advantages protecting your position from displacement
Career CapitalCareer & Professional Development
Professional reputation compounds like financial interest: small, consistent investments in quality and integrity accumulate exponentially
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