Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026In high school, a friend and I produced a 10min VHS exploring Joseph Campbell’s monomyth. It was the jankiest, most cringeworthy video ever (we wrote the credits on the fridge in mustard). Fascinating to think that type of content might return as an honest signal of effort given these tools. 110
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026While I can't wait to read this new collection, I'm still recovering from @kyliu99.bsky.social's "State Change" so it may take some time 010
Reposted by Douglas HannahJohn Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Cool new research on 167 U.S. cities: Uber and Lyft entry raised regional GDP per capita by ~2.9% and boosted unstable/gig-style employment by ~3.7%. Effects on total jobs and total earnings? Statistically indistinguishable from zero. 2132
Reposted by Douglas HannahAmy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Study finds women employees more likely to build friendships through existing connections, creating larger networks. Men developed selective friendships. Female friendship networks contribute more to org stability; male friendships more focused on individual benefit. phys.org/news/2026-08...phys.orgStudy finds women build strong workplace friendships than menWomen are more likely to form close-knit friendship groups at work, a Durham University Business School study suggests. The findings are published in the journal Social Networks. 092
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 19/08/2026On our way back from a faculty event. Do we caulk the wagons and float? 110
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Ha, checkmate, I got imposter syndrome. (Also turducken, triathlete, skanky, and immersion blender) 010
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Throwback to the most intense classroom I've ever presented in; seen here *from the street level windows* that allow passersby to watch the presenter beset from all sides in the middle of the ring @Bocconi 060
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This is fantastic, and a key issue in #mgmt and #orgstudies as well. With enough variables we can lead our models to any output, so more moving parts frequently leads to less insight (as we wrote about here: sms.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...)sms.onlinelibrary.wiley.comAnalytic models in strategy, organizations, and management research: A guide for consumersResearch summary Analytic models are a powerful approach for developing theory, yet are often poorly understood in the strategy and organizations community. Our goal is to enhance the influence of t... 020
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This is a well done reflection. Business models and investment both have gravity; in this case, the gravity of the investment they’ve taken works against the gravity of their business model 100
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Very cool analysis of the Maine 70.3 Half Ironman men’s finishing times last weekend (assembled by a friend). Note that the pool of competitors in each age bracket gets smaller as ages go up, but the finishing times really don’t change much! 010
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026If you’re in Philly early for #AOM2026 and looking for something to go, I highly recommend touring the US Mint. Great exhibit design, see the machines in action, quick visit. www.usmint.gov/about/tours-...usmint.govPhiladelphia MintThe Philadelphia Mint produces circulating, commemorative, and precious metal coins; medals; and manufactures the Mint's dies. Learn more about this facility. 030
Reposted by Douglas HannahDouglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Seems like a good time to remind folks that even if you are safe from fires, breathing smoke is, like, really bad. A DIY air filter can help. #wildfire #pacificpalisades #crboxtheconversation.comHow a nondescript box has been saving lives during the pandemic – and revealing the power of grassroots innovation3D printers got a lot of attention when DIYers leapt to action to address equipment shortages early in the pandemic, but some everyday items found in hardware stores played a big role, too. 34935
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Oh my gosh, I love everything about this: the concept, the community, the Risky Business homage www.news-gazette.com/business/ent... h/t @ecourtem.bsky.socialnews-gazette.comChampaign bookstore buys house to offer events, retreatsJenny Shima, owner of The Literary, is converting a historic Champaign home into a space for weekend reading retreats and other events. She hopes to have the first booking available 000
Reposted by Douglas HannahBen Spigel @benspigel.bsky.social · 01/07/2026New paper alert! Learning to grow in entrepreneurial ecosystems. entrepreneurs learn about entrepreneurship from other entrepreneurs. Not from accelerators, not from textbooks, not from their very handsome entrepreneurship professors — from each other. 🧵 1/7 link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comLearning to grow in entrepreneurial ecosystems - Small Business EconomicsThe entrepreneurial ecosystems literature lacks a clear explanation for how ecosystems influence firm growth. To address this gap, this paper examines learning as a way to link the structure of ecosys... 121
Reposted by Douglas HannahDavid Buchanan @retr0.id · 24/11/2025"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects. 251193218
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 10/06/2026ok, yeah, in retrospect not an ideal bookmark to be using, in the courthouse, while waiting in the jury pool 000
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 23/05/2026“Some things need to become enormous to survive. Other things survive because they never needed to become enormous.” 020
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Wonderful piece by Donna Harris on pitch competitions in entrepreneurship: They reward the wrong things, but we just can't quit them (h/t to @vanishingcorp.bsky.social) buildersfieldguide.substack.com/p/breeding-c...buildersfieldguide.substack.comBreeding Cobras or Building Companies?Pitch competitions dominate entrepreneurship. There's almost no evidence they help founders build durable companies. 100
Reposted by Douglas HannahChristopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I think it's under-appreciated how much user-hostile recipe sites and news articles smothered in pop-ups and video ads have negatively polarized the average normie against the open web, and helped to drive adoption of AI as an alternative way to get basic information 2645590
Reposted by Douglas HannahSeva @seva.bsky.social · 20/05/2026re-upping this in light of the very amusing Granta fiascohegemon.substack.comThe Easy Promise of Hidden RevelationsDon't blame LLMs. We have always wanted slop. 1336
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I've never liked the phrase "kill your babies" as a piece of writing advice, but oooof, it sure does hurt to watch paragraphs that took days to craft end up on the cutting room floor 110
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Sure the world is in tatters and gas is $75/gallon but I just bought four Brother ink cartridges for $25, for a 10 year old printer that's still going strong? 000
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Sharing a good friend's Kickstarter. Erin is a designer and illustrator; her book Girl Math is gorgeous and offers accessible advice to folks (esp. young women) who weren't taught about or feel overwhelmed by personal finances. www.kickstarter.com/projects/eri...kickstarter.comGirl Math: Claiming our Freedom & Redefining AbundanceHelp me print & distribute this super cute guide to money & mindset for women who don’t know what they don’t know. Let’s change lives! 010
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Watching “Chef” starring Jon Favreau has led me, inevitably, back to the greatest restaurant review of all time www.everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros...everywhereist.comBros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, EverThere is something to be said about a truly disastrous meal, a meal forever indelible in your memory because it’s so uniquely bad, it can only be deemed an achievement. The sort of meal where everyone... 240
Reposted by Douglas HannahNicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 04/05/2026A female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the train with an observer. In the experimental condition, an additional experimenter dressed as Batman entered from another door. Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%).nature.comUnexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect - npj Mental Health Researchnpj Mental Health Research - Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect 1204
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 10/05/2026My mother spent much of her career as a florist, which made Mother’s Day a mixed bag for her (looong days and too much work). So this year when my 6yo and I made paper flowers with the tagline, “no florists were harmed in the making of this arrangement” 😜 020
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 08/05/2026A gorgeous, quiet grey day in @giesbusiness.bsky.social during oops-no-finals week. #illini 050
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Rereading Edward Abbey’s “Down the River” to prep for a float trip at the end of the month, and delighted to find a perfect start to the preface: “For me, this floating began near home…my brother Hoots and I built a boat. To be honest, we didn’t build it, we stole it. Nor was it exactly a boat.” 000
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 04/05/2026"That's kind of a wild thing," said one man at South Station. "I think the researchers might be a little bored over at UCLA." 000
Reposted by Douglas HannahDominika Noworolska @dominikanow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026One underappreciated value of coding your own interviews from transcripts by hand is the self-coaching potential it brings. It can be annoying & challenging, but really lays bare the potential bad habits & mistakes that you still make, no matter the level of experince. We all have our blindspots. 1114
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Big day today if anybody wants to pitch me an irresponsible investment or adventure 010
Reposted by Douglas HannahAmy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Studies involving venture capital, pro sports, healthcare & entertainment find all-women groups face a collaboration penalty that solo women & all-men groups escape. All women groups seen as more threatening & more likely to challenge power structures. theconversation.com/why-women-in...theconversation.comWhy women in groups face a ‘collaboration penalty’ that solo female stars like Taylor Swift and Coco Gauff escapeAll-women groups, whether in sports, music or business, are consistently underpaid compared to men. They’re seen as more threatening to the status quo. 03718
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Very odd to see Claude’s writing ticks show up in a print copy of the Economist (ironically, in an article about AI 🙄) 000
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Turns out Indianapolis airport is ORD’s mirror twin. Connecting through O’Hare is like being a salmon going over a hydro dam; this is a meditation spa in comparison 🤣 010
Reposted by Douglas HannahBrendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Thinking more about the Yale report. Parts of it are thoughtful. But Yale wants to make what is essentially a structural problem a question of behavioral one. 3113
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Fantastic panel on the role of agentic AI in research, hosted by @strategicmgmt.bsky.social and Sukhun Kang, with @mattbeane.bsky.social, Gwendolyn Lee, @cgartenberg99.bsky.social, @joshgans.bsky.social. Image from Claudine Gartenberg. It's a new world (with lots of unanswered questions). 011
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Hummingbirds shouldn't be allowed to migrate this way. They're too small. It's too far. 000
Reposted by Douglas HannahDeb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Also bear in mind that ‘entrepreneurship and small businesses’ also includes artists, designers, musicians, writers, and other independent creative folks — this is a huge, systemic *cultural* loss as well as an economic loss. 35216
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 09/04/2026“False certainty is dangerous; it rules out all possibilities but one and in essence surrenders to that imagined future.” 07616
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I recently ended a six year (!!!) streak on Duolingo to try a language not available on the platform. I am definitely not going to miss being yelled at by a cartoon owl…but now playing with some of the alternatives, I also really appreciate how thoughtfully designed it is. 100
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 04/04/202620 minutes till cameras! @bostonu.bsky.social #TEDxBU 000
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 01/04/2026🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 "Navigating Pedagogical Dilemmas When Fields Are in Flux" w/ Siobhan O'Mahony (BU). #AcademicSky #Education 🧵 140
Reposted by Douglas HannahJason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Nothing stopping us from changing “et al” to “and the fellas” 9345110
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Digging into research on the geography of venture capital, and I am reminded how much I love this finding by Dutta, Armanios, and Desai (2022): New bridges 🌉 (real, not metaphorical) lead to more, and more industry-spanning, startups! pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/... 000
Reposted by Douglas HannahDonovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 29/03/2026It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is 331366473
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 26/03/2026I love this: things need not scale to merit investment. “When innovation begins with the realities of people and landscapes, rather than with the assumption that solutions must scale, different possibilities come into view.” 000
Douglas Hannah @buildit.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Day 1 in the studio under my belt! Up next: another 6 days of filming over the next month, two months of video editing and production, assignment design, and then the course goes live in July! Current enrollment: 65,000 😳 001