The Friend Manual: How to make friends when you're bad at it

Category: Mental Models

• Signal Detection Theory Social Skills

  How to make friends with signal detection theory – part II

  

  See part I here.  I’ve been thinking about isomorphisms a lot (because it’s one of my favorite topics) and this blog is chock full of my isomorphisms that I use to understand social interactions coupled with human body limitations. And I was wondering if creating multiple isomorphic examples for a…

  August 28, 2024
• Cartoons / Comics Signal Detection Theory Social Skills

  How to make friends with Signal Detection Theory

  There’s a concept I came across in neuroergonomics called “signal detection theory” which helps to analyze decision-making in the presence of uncertainty. And what is socializing if not that? The basic idea is that you have things that are signals and based on the qualities of the signal, the qualities…

  August 24, 2024
• Body-Based Stuff (Autonomic, Etc.) Concepts Mental Models

  Toxic Productivity Syndrome

  I’ve been trying to figure out what led to my extreme burnout and I think that this might be part of it. I’m someone who takes on too much stress and holds onto it as a sort of badge of honor. So, here is my take on it using logic…

  January 29, 2024
• Events & Doing Things Experience maps

  Experience maps 3: experience through time

  So, the next thing to look at with the experience map is to view it through time. So, we took the map, and then separated it into bands. Next, we take those bands and on each level we show the total time spent at that number or higher. So, if…

  February 16, 2023
• Experience maps

  Experience maps 2: Where we add color to the graphic!

  *Continuing from the previous post So, now that we’ve seen that a single experience may be extremely variable rather than binary (fun/not-fun), we’ll expand on this. I’ve made this curve based on what could happen for me when I do something social. You can see that I get stressed leading…

  February 15, 2023
• Events & Doing Things Experience maps

  Introducing…the experience map!

  Here is a new concept for the next few posts: the experience map. Ta da! Most of the time people think about events in the binary: Did you have fun? Yes or No But, most experiences go more like this: Some parts are good and some parts are bad. And…

  February 14, 2023