Kevin P. Taylor
@ktaylor.bsky.social
Prof. researching early-stage founder positive and negative outcomes from #entrepreneurship. Previously built software and startups.
Wellbeing, emotion, motives, impression management #rstats #css #compsocsci #stats #ML
https://founderscholar.com
Wellbeing, emotion, motives, impression management #rstats #css #compsocsci #stats #ML
https://founderscholar.com
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Kevin P. Taylor
@ktaylor.bsky.social
· Jan 10
The Power of a Smile: The Use of Smiles and Adjectives in Crowdfunding Social Media | Published in Journal of Small Business Strategy
By Kevin P. Taylor, Jennifer D. Golden & 3 more. ...
jsbs.scholasticahq.com
In my latest paper published this month (with my amazing co-authors not on bsky), we examined the effects of extraverted behavior on trust in a crowdfunding context.
Available here: jsbs.scholasticahq.com/article/1240...
Available here: jsbs.scholasticahq.com/article/1240...
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Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Communities need used-book shops.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...
We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
If LLMs can write dissertations, why can’t my iPhone properly correct my spelling in a message?
November 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
If LLMs can write dissertations, why can’t my iPhone properly correct my spelling in a message?
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It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
The illiterate and innumerate generation is here. How do we address it?
(The Atlantic)
(The Atlantic)
November 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The illiterate and innumerate generation is here. How do we address it?
(The Atlantic)
(The Atlantic)
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I do like the Penguin Books vending machine at Exeter train station but I won't be truly happy until there's another one next to it solely selling rare freakbeat 45s made between 1965 and 1967.
November 18, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I do like the Penguin Books vending machine at Exeter train station but I won't be truly happy until there's another one next to it solely selling rare freakbeat 45s made between 1965 and 1967.
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But he wasn’t deeply ashamed when he openly questioned if women were bad at math?
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
dlvr.it
November 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
But he wasn’t deeply ashamed when he openly questioned if women were bad at math?
Stuff I don’t want to know about.
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Stuff I don’t want to know about.
He’s just, like, the former president of Harvard. No big deal.
1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile.
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...
For Women in Economics, the Hostility Is Out in the Open (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:53 AM
He’s just, like, the former president of Harvard. No big deal.
It was time but I’m already feeling nostalgic.
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
It was time but I’m already feeling nostalgic.
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Happy Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Happy Halloween
“I do believe that we should have the right to refuse AI in our education now”
Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
“I do believe that we should have the right to refuse AI in our education now”
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Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
1/ I spoke with a long time insurance entrepreneur yesterday. He said AI is turning insurance on its head and maybe 260% of facing and data entry jobs are likely to disappear. But, he was optimistic other types of jobs would also appear.
October 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
1/ I spoke with a long time insurance entrepreneur yesterday. He said AI is turning insurance on its head and maybe 260% of facing and data entry jobs are likely to disappear. But, he was optimistic other types of jobs would also appear.
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1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
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You’ve heard that the Economist accidentally published misinformation about the prevalence of Holocaust denial, but did you know the underlying methodological problem is super common and decades-old?
Learn more on Nov. 13: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rare-t...
Free for students & AAPOR, $5 for others
Learn more on Nov. 13: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rare-t...
Free for students & AAPOR, $5 for others
October 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
You’ve heard that the Economist accidentally published misinformation about the prevalence of Holocaust denial, but did you know the underlying methodological problem is super common and decades-old?
Learn more on Nov. 13: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rare-t...
Free for students & AAPOR, $5 for others
Learn more on Nov. 13: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rare-t...
Free for students & AAPOR, $5 for others
And then they start falling like dominoes.
Breaking News: The University of Virginia struck an agreement with the White House to remove the threat of a federal investigation, part of a Trump pressure campaign. It's the first public university to do so. nyti.ms/3Wgo2JR
October 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
And then they start falling like dominoes.
The most French thing I’ve read this year.
It is so funny that the French government had to pass a law about this
www.france24.com/en/20160104-...
www.france24.com/en/20160104-...
October 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The most French thing I’ve read this year.
This matches with what most of my contacts in the tech industry report. “ AI is a normal technology.” Via
@anildash.com
www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...
@anildash.com
www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This matches with what most of my contacts in the tech industry report. “ AI is a normal technology.” Via
@anildash.com
www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...
@anildash.com
www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...
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The Louvre thieves should just say they're using the pieces to train their AI algorithm and it should all be good
October 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The Louvre thieves should just say they're using the pieces to train their AI algorithm and it should all be good
This is what my lit review mind map looked like as I wrote my dissertation.
Hello Bluesky!
We rate DAGs. Some are great. Some are... not so great. But we rate them all.
Let's start with a famous powerpoint hairball a.k.a. "the Afghanisdag", presented to Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal around 2010. His own rating?
1/10 "When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war"
We rate DAGs. Some are great. Some are... not so great. But we rate them all.
Let's start with a famous powerpoint hairball a.k.a. "the Afghanisdag", presented to Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal around 2010. His own rating?
1/10 "When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war"
October 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This is what my lit review mind map looked like as I wrote my dissertation.
I was doing a search on YouTube for content for an upcoming class session. The results were riddled with AI garbage. We need an “authentic human” filter now on any search screen.
October 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I was doing a search on YouTube for content for an upcoming class session. The results were riddled with AI garbage. We need an “authentic human” filter now on any search screen.