First Principles
Tyler Weeks, Boris Genzer, Izzy Ponce-Pore, Cole Napper“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” - Jack Kerouac
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 17 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 10 days ago |
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Hundred Years, All New People
Somewhere in my thirties I left a research job to take my first role in HR. The great thing about a large company is that sometimes they give you jobs you’re not qualified for. I had come up through physics, spent years at national labs and...
The Technology Almost Always Fails Last
In the 2014 comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West, Seth MacFarlane plays a cowardly sheep farmer in 1880s Arizona who can’t stop cataloging all the ways the frontier is trying to kill everyone. He’s worried about outlaws, bar fights, rat...
Your Best Hire Might Fail Your Assessment
Your employment assessment is excellent at finding competent people but it isn’t designed to find extraordinary ones.
That’s not a criticism of assessment science. The instruments do what they were designed to do: predict who will perform...
Emergence-Based Organizations: A Vision of the Future
A hundred years ago the world of work was undergoing a disorienting revolution and it was obsessed with efficiency.
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One prevailing school of thought, pioneered by Frederick Winslow Taylor, focused on the wor...
Fifteen Quick Lessons from the Other Side
I’ve been asked many times how I made the transition from physics to people analytics. Was it hard? Why did I do it? Would you recommend it? What do you wish you’d known?
The best answer I can give about why I did it is that it looked inte...
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” - Jack Kerouac
Izzy is a Talent Management researcher at Marriott International, blending science and practice.
Prolific writer, thinker, and podcaster. Directionally Correct Podcast & Newsletter. Data Driven HR Academy. All opinions are my own. datadrivenhracademy.com & colenapper.com
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