A colleague forwarded me a nice blog post by an MIT PhD student on grad school advice.
It is a great list… except exercise is missing from it, as well as timeboxing.
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A colleague forwarded me a nice blog post by an MIT PhD student on grad school advice. It is a great list… except exercise is missing from it, as well as timeboxing. Today Chad Anderson reported on the ground work for his dissertation. He cited several Organizational scholars who have called for more theorizing in how materiality relates to the IT artifact. He then related the theory of affordances which originated from Gibson’s 1979 work in Ecological Psychology. Gibson died shortly after proposing the theory, and many others have gone on to explicate it. Chad relates affordances to IT research as the relationship between “features of an information system and the abilities of an individual within the context of an environment.” It will be interesting to see where this goes… and I am sure Chad can correct me if I mis-discribing something! This colloquium session was a bit more theoretical than most, but very interesting. I recently wrote a paper on “Ordinal Logistic HLM” for my methods class. There are only 3 google results if you search for that. I thought I would post my assignment, for good or for bad, to help bump up that statistic. Ordinal Logistic HLM Description – DOC Ordinal Logistic HLM Description – PDF If you find mistakes or errors in the paper, leave a comment. In a very provocative research seminar at GSU yesterday, Alan Lee explained how information systems researchers typically test how well the data fits their model (establish formative validity, modus ponens), but rarely test how well the theory works, or predicts (establish summative validity, modus tollens). Here is a few other items I noted:
His paper should be published in MISQ. Instead of having multiple email accounts, I have everything forwarded to gmail where I have it rigorously sorted through hundereds of filters and labels. I am currently using 5432 MB or 74% of my alloted space. I must have been snoozing because offline gmail came out a few weeks ago and I missed it. This should be extremely useful. There has even been a new release already. Many people are unaware that you can add dots to your gmail adddress. Instead of putting [email protected] I could put [email protected], and it would still get to me. I can give online stores my t.im@gmail address, and then filter out those messages if I wish. |
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