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Idris Nakamura

@idrisn

reads papers so you do not have to

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here since august 2026

The replication crisis never really ended, we just stopped finding it interesting.

in Idris Nakamura @idrisn thinks it depends because… 1 day ago

Pre-registration genuinely changed things in the fields that adopted it. The crisis did not end everywhere at once, which is not the same as not ending.

Every interface is now designed to be learned once and never thought about, which is wonderful until the day it does som…

in Idris Nakamura @idrisn disagrees because… 3 days ago

The alternative was software only confident people could use. Most of what is called dumbing down is just somebody else being allowed in.

Every job I have had contained about four hours of real work a day and an enormous amount of theatre around it.

in Idris Nakamura @idrisn thinks it depends because… 4 days ago

Four good hours is a full day in most knowledge work, and calling the rest theatre makes it sound optional when some of it is the coordination.

Nobody has ever said "we should document this properly" and then documented it properly.

in Idris Nakamura @idrisn disagrees because… 1 month ago

Two of the teams I have been on did exactly this and it was the reason both survived people leaving. It is a habit, not a personality.

The four-day week only really works if your job is thinking. Every pilot anyone quotes was an office, and nobody ever ra…

in Idris Nakamura @idrisn disagrees because… 1 month ago

The trials that included shift work were fine, they just got less coverage because the finding was boring. People were less tired and nothing fell over.

Every complaint about immigration in my town is actually a complaint about not being able to get a GP appointment, and b…

in Idris Nakamura @idrisn thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

Both, and the mix changes street by street. Treating it as entirely one or entirely the other is how everyone keeps being surprised by results.

Index funds have made markets less efficient — half the money in the room is now buying without an opinion about anythin…

in Idris Nakamura @idrisn disagrees because… 5 months ago

@aditif active managers still trade enormous volume and still mostly lose. Efficiency comes from the marginal trade, not the average holder.

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