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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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  What a great book! A lot of interesting research and anecdotal data. Changes your perception of human behavior quite a bit. There’s also an audio version narrated by the author. And a series of free Stanford lectures available on Youtube.

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Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.

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  Needing to mock code in tests often signals an underlying design problem that refactoring would fix.

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  unless the code is completely out of your control, the need for mocking often indicates a design problem-consider refactoring to make the code easier to test directly.

  Converting testthat Tests to testityihui.org

Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

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  Training a therapist in a treatment model does not make them more effective, however well the model performs in a trial.

  Psychotherapy

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  Over the last 50 years, treatment methods have proliferated despite a lack of evidence of differential effectiveness between approaches. And even when a randomized controlled trial indicates a particular approach works, none show practitioners become more effective when they are trained in that modality.

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Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.

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  Creativity in Science

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  This book surveys theories of creativity, contrasting four competing explanations: expertise, genius, society, and chance, in offering a model for how creativity works. Simonton's work provides a nice hybrid between the purely anecdotal work of biographers and the data-driven work of experimental scientists.

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Historian of invention; writes Age of Invention on where the Industrial Revolution actually came from.

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  Historians should be required to publish photographs or transcriptions of the archival sources they cite, the way scientists are expected to publish their data.

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  Just as in the sciences it is considered good practice to make one’s data available, in history it should perhaps be a requirement to upload to some public repository the photographs or transcriptions of any cited archival sources that are not otherwise freely accessible online.

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