http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/11/30/the-power-of-positive-deviance/ Tech Evangelist Joey deVilla on Shopify, startups, software development, tech news and other nerdy stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:18:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/11/30/the-power-of-positive-deviance/comment-page-1/#comment-6086 Mark Jaquith Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:03:28 +0000 http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/11/30/the-power-of-positive-deviance/#comment-6086 I immediately thought of <a href="http://trafficwaves.org/" rel="nofollow">Traffic Waves</a>. If you have time, give the whole thing a read. It has changed the way I drive in busy traffic and it really does work to break up certain kinds of traffic jams. It's fairly deviant, in that most people think you're a sucker if you leave any space in between you and the car in front of you, because that'll enable other people to merge and get ahead of you (when it's their lack of opportunity to merge that often causes the jams near exits). I immediately thought of Traffic Waves. If you have time, give the whole thing a read. It has changed the way I drive in busy traffic and it really does work to break up certain kinds of traffic jams. It’s fairly deviant, in that most people think you’re a sucker if you leave any space in between you and the car in front of you, because that’ll enable other people to merge and get ahead of you (when it’s their lack of opportunity to merge that often causes the jams near exits).

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