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Nathan for You

By Nathan Fielder

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AI Rep-Loop Compression

Build AI tools that give you feedback 80% as good as an expert's, on demand, to get years of judgment-building reps in a fraction of the time.

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Behavioral Activation

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Benefit-Priming Questions (Good Friction)

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Broadcast How Leaders Think (Mental-Model Transparency)

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Counterprogram the Narrative (Take a Punch)

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Evidence-First Intervention Design

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Friction Injection for Behavior Suppression

To make people do less of something, add logistical AND cognitive friction at the moment of the hot decision.

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Habit-Formation Model for Team Behavior Change

Drive team adoption (e.g. of AI) with behavioral psychology, not education: consistency, low friction, and a powerful reward loop.

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Incentive Alignment Against the Dark Side

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Magic Questions (Statements That End in 'Do You Agree?')

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Right for Wrong

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The Behavioral Diagnosis

A journey map on steroids: every micro-step to the behavior, with the blocking psychology named at each one.

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The Easiness Ladder: Default, Then Rule of Thumb, Then Decision

First line of defence is always a default. If you can't default it, give people a heuristic — never a calculation.

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The Three B's (Behavior, Barriers, Benefits)

Pick an uncomfortably specific behavior, strip its barriers, then engineer an immediate benefit.

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You Are Not the Protagonist (Operationalize, Don't Impose)

Your job isn't to convince everyone of your vision — it's to understand the leader's vision and find the spiky places you can shape it.

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