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Entries from April 2009

The Psychology of the B Lane Swimmer

April 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments

A number of years ago, I joined a Master’s swim team. I was doing triathlons at the time, and the swim was my weakest leg. The team I joined divided the pool into four lanes: A (fastest swimmers), B (next fastest), C (next fastest) and D (slowest.) Workouts were organized accordingly; faster swimmers were assigned [...]

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Tags: General · Research

Power and Responsibility

April 16th, 2009 · No Comments

I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about the close relationship between power and responsibility. It keeps coming up in my research. It has shown itself in three different projects/papers I am working on, and I’m attending a workshop soon on the idea of the flip side of empowerment: a shifting burden of work. It’s [...]

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Tags: Research