Scientific Definition
Assuming new technology will be adopted faster and more usefully than it will.
Plain-English Definition
Assuming new technology will be adopted faster and more usefully than it will.
Feynman Explanation
The future is here — just not in any department that has to actually use it.
Core Principle
Assuming new technology will be adopted faster and more usefully than it will.
Mechanisms
Assuming new technology will be adopted faster and more usefully than it will.
Pending editorial review.
Pending editorial review.
Pending editorial review.
Pending editorial review.
Pending editorial review.
Pending editorial review.
Inputs (Triggers)
Pending editorial review.
Outputs (Behaviors)
Pending editorial review.
Behavioral Signature
The future is here — just not in any department that has to actually use it.
Examples
- An exec promises full AI rollout by Q3; the field hasn't been told yet.
- Investment pacing decoupled from adoption reality.
Pending editorial review.
Famous Experiments
Pending editorial review.
Design Principles
- Plan adoption curves bottom-up, not top-down. Pilot before pronouncing.
Measurement Approaches
Pending editorial review.
Evidence
Pending editorial review.
Pending editorial review.
The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Plan adoption curves bottom-up, not top-down. Pilot before pronouncing.
Pending editorial review.
Pending editorial review.
Interactive Mini Network
Click any neighbor to re-center the graph and follow the threads of connection.
Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
A story repeats until it becomes obviously true.
Contradictory evidence sometimes deepens the original belief.
Beliefs survive the evidence that should have killed them.
We hunt for evidence that we were right all along.
Updating beliefs too slowly when new evidence arrives.
Believing people get what they deserve.
Reflexively rejecting evidence that contradicts established norms.
Studying winners while ignoring identical losers.
We defend existing systems even when they harm us.
Evaluating an argument's logic based on whether you agree with the conclusion.
We see bias in others more easily than in ourselves.
Low ability paired with high confidence.