Blake Eastman
14 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 9, 2024 by Blake Eastman · across every show →
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Jan 9, 2024
Eastman: Video recording observer effect disappears within ten minutes
“The truth is, people, like, will talk about the observer effect with video and all that, it goes away in, like, 10 minutes. Like, if you have, like, a small iPhone, you forget about it, and you're actually seeing patterns of behavior”
Jan 9, 2024 negative
Jan 9, 2024 negative
Eastman: Major gap exists between leadership theory and practical behavioral execution
“I think there's a major gap in the leadership or organizational culture, that whole world between theory and application. So somebody reads a book about maybe radical candor or some, like, concept, and then the way that they apply it is completely different.”
Jan 9, 2024 bullish
Jan 9, 2024 neutral
Eastman: People quickly conform whenever an influential person shifts social narratives
“I hate saying this, but I do believe like people are sheep in that regard. Where there's a narrative, and if a powerful person just comes along and shifts the narrative, you see how quickly everybody else falls in line, and we're all on both sides of this. Som…”
Jan 9, 2024 negative
Jan 9, 2024 positive
Eastman: True expertise is signaled by spontaneous admissions of ignorance and error
“I like to look for I don't knows. So whenever I talk to any expert and is every, there's always an answer. Sometimes it's nice to be like, oh, I don't know. Or there's not always an answer to something, right? They don't always, because I feel like there's a c…”
Jan 9, 2024
Eastman: Research team is analyzing behavioral patterns across Tim Ferriss's interviews
“So we're doing a thing on how to ask better questions. So we're taking some really good question people, like one of the people that I've seen evolve is Tim Ferriss, his ability to ask questions in a certain way. And we basically take every single interview he…”
Jan 9, 2024 positive
Eastman: The best communicators maintain attention through unpredictable vocal tonality shifts
“So one of the big things that I've noticed in the best communicators is they have range. So they have the ability. There's a lot of shifts in their tonality. There's a lot of movement. You kind of can't predict what the next word is going to be. There's, I jus…”
Jan 9, 2024 bullish
Eastman founded Behavioral Robotics to train machines to read human behavior
“So I started this other company called behavioral robotics with the goal is to teach machines to read human behavior. Because if reading human behavior is all about these complex decision trees, there's no reason from a first principle perspective that a machi…”
Jan 9, 2024
Eastman: Subordinating yourself mentally prevents effective navigation of corporate hierarchies
“If you are falling in line with a power structure, it's often very difficult to navigate it. Meaning if it's like, oh my God, this person is this, and this person is this, and I'm just this. You're very rarely going to be able to see eye to eye with that perso…”
Jan 9, 2024 neutral
Eastman: Team members are banned from sending one-word text responses
“Like on my team, there's a rule that no one could give me a one word response. So no one could ever say yes or no. It has to be like, yes, emoji, yes, gif, or something like that, because I think someone's mad at me when they just say yes.”
Jan 9, 2024
Eastman: Reading body language requires observing shifts, not assigning fixed meanings
“So the truth is a lot of people using body language experts will look at someone's behavior and be like, oh, like this means this, and this means that that's not really what you're doing. I think it's more about noticing than making meaning out of.”
Dec 24, 2024
Eastman: Internalizing hierarchy prevents workers from navigating corporate power structures
“If you are falling in line with a power structure, it's often very difficult to navigate it. Meaning if it's like, oh my God, this person is this and this person is this and I'm just this. You're very rarely going to be able to see eye to eye with that person …”