Adam Mastroianni
Person on 4 sites
Adam Mastroianni is an experimental psychologist who writes the blog Experimental History.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: PhD in psychology, Harvard (2021) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Experimental History: Blog published in The New York Times and The Atlantic and covered on NPR, by its own list (opens wiqqi.app)
- Book: The Strangest Idea in the World, due in March 2027 (opens wiqqi.app)
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Blog: Experimental History (opens www.experimental-history.com)
“Fake it ‘til you make it (and then keep faking it)”
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x.com: @a_m_mastroianni (opens x.com)
“just got a physical prototype of the book and it's looking fire”
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Papers: ORCID (opens orcid.org)
“The future of academic publishing”
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Blog: Experimental History (opens www.experimental-history.com)
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37 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Most advice is bad: it is either obvious, true for some people but not others, or wrong (opens korrents.com)
“Most advice is bad. It's either obvious ("Don't sweat the small stuff"-if I thought it was small, I wouldn't be sweating it!), applicable to some people but not to others ("Be more aggressive"-some people should, sure,…”
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So-called great literature is a hoax, with nothing special about it (opens korrents.com)
“I owe an apology to every English teacher I ever had. I always assumed that so-called “great” literature was a hoax, a punishment inflicted upon adolescents for the crime of being young.”
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Teaching and grading are two different jobs, and doing both at once makes a person worse at teaching. (opens korrents.com)
“Grade harder, grade softer, grade with words rather than numbers, hide the grades entirely—none of it works, because the problem was never the grades themselves. The problem was trying to be both a teacher and a cop at…”
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Most advice is bad: it is either obvious, true for some people but not others, or wrong (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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How to Survive Boiling Water (opens rcmnd.app)
“"How to Survive Boiling Water" is a quintessential effort post. Cook accidentally drinks some probiotic tea, and then she's like, wait, how could "probiotic tea" possibly be a thing?”
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Magical Constitutionalism (opens rcmnd.app)
“SECOND PLACE ($250): Magical Constitutionalism by Ricardo López Cordero”
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Remembering Indonesia from My Grandpa (opens rcmnd.app)
“What stands out about Hsieh's version is that her roots occupy such a unique spot in history: her grandparents were Chinese born in Indonesia, which means they got caught between the rock of the Cultural Revolution and…”
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How to Survive Boiling Water (opens rcmnd.app)