Psychologist
Constantly feeling inadequate. Doubting your intellect and talents. Being convinced that sooner or later you are going to be exposed as a fraud -as the ignorant person you really are. Long nights sweating over the assignment, the presentation, the paper you are writing. Basically never feeling enough. The challenges of professional women, no matter how…
If you are Finnish, you most certainly have already heard about the Vastaamo data breach case. In short, the client data records of a big Finnish psychotherapy company, Vastaamo, have been hacked, probably twice, and the data and session notes of 60 000 people have been stolen. At least parts of this huge data including…
What makes a team reach its best possible level of performance? How to make a collective truly outperform anything what its members could do individually? Here is a quick dive into literature on team performance and a couple of secrets to high-performing teams. Let’s talk about team goals and team identity. Traditionally, organizations have tried…
Anaïs Nin was is one of the best-known journal keepers to this day.
Qualitative research has a bad reputation -and, I’m sad to say, for a reason. Here is a collection of some problems and pitfalls I’ve noticed in qualitative research theses and papers and suggestions on how to avoid them. Why Qualitative Research? What is qualitative research? It is not a lacking or poorly done quantitative research….
I hear a lot of people say these days that it is okay not to be at your most productive when there is a pandemic to fight and when you are locked inside your house 24/7 while trying to do remote work, homeschool your kids, wash your hands 500 times a day, and keep your…
The original, longer version of this text (in Finnish) can be found at Verkko-Särö. The infectious nature of Corona virus is also digital. The viral bubble around the virus is quite reminiscent of a postmodern version of dancing plague. What good can come out of this for the human community? In the Middle Ages, Europe…
In today’s society, you don’t need to be a computer engineer to see how understanding human-smart device interaction is becoming as crucial as understanding our interaction with other human beings. The qualities of smart devices make them very different from other objects that surround us in our home. This offers possibilities to establish a relationship…