Joe Conway
@abide4us.bsky.social
Executive Leader | Culture Strategist | Keynote Speaker on Belonging, Bias, & Organizational Transformation | Healthcare & Community Equity Innovator
Everything counts when curiosity leads.
Wins teach. Losses train. Detours reveal what plans can’t. When experience is the goal, nothing is wasted—only harvested.
Growth doesn’t come from avoiding failure, but from walking through it with eyes open.
#Learning #GrowthMindset #Leadership #ABIDE
Wins teach. Losses train. Detours reveal what plans can’t. When experience is the goal, nothing is wasted—only harvested.
Growth doesn’t come from avoiding failure, but from walking through it with eyes open.
#Learning #GrowthMindset #Leadership #ABIDE
December 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Everything counts when curiosity leads.
Wins teach. Losses train. Detours reveal what plans can’t. When experience is the goal, nothing is wasted—only harvested.
Growth doesn’t come from avoiding failure, but from walking through it with eyes open.
#Learning #GrowthMindset #Leadership #ABIDE
Wins teach. Losses train. Detours reveal what plans can’t. When experience is the goal, nothing is wasted—only harvested.
Growth doesn’t come from avoiding failure, but from walking through it with eyes open.
#Learning #GrowthMindset #Leadership #ABIDE
You didn’t choose the cards.
The era.
The body.
The bias.
The breaks.
But you do choose strategy, courage, discipline, and timing.
Life doesn’t reward luck nearly as much as it rewards clarity and guts.
Play smarter. Stay awake.
#Leadership #Resilience #Mindset #Growth #Strategy #PlayTheHand
The era.
The body.
The bias.
The breaks.
But you do choose strategy, courage, discipline, and timing.
Life doesn’t reward luck nearly as much as it rewards clarity and guts.
Play smarter. Stay awake.
#Leadership #Resilience #Mindset #Growth #Strategy #PlayTheHand
December 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
You didn’t choose the cards.
The era.
The body.
The bias.
The breaks.
But you do choose strategy, courage, discipline, and timing.
Life doesn’t reward luck nearly as much as it rewards clarity and guts.
Play smarter. Stay awake.
#Leadership #Resilience #Mindset #Growth #Strategy #PlayTheHand
The era.
The body.
The bias.
The breaks.
But you do choose strategy, courage, discipline, and timing.
Life doesn’t reward luck nearly as much as it rewards clarity and guts.
Play smarter. Stay awake.
#Leadership #Resilience #Mindset #Growth #Strategy #PlayTheHand
Knowledge isn’t a vibe.
It’s a discipline.
Some people sit with ideas long enough to let them change how they think…
how they decide…
how they lead.
Others skim just enough to sound informed.
Then reject what feels uncomfortable.
Rinse. Spit. Move on.
The difference shows up later.
In decisions.
It’s a discipline.
Some people sit with ideas long enough to let them change how they think…
how they decide…
how they lead.
Others skim just enough to sound informed.
Then reject what feels uncomfortable.
Rinse. Spit. Move on.
The difference shows up later.
In decisions.
December 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Knowledge isn’t a vibe.
It’s a discipline.
Some people sit with ideas long enough to let them change how they think…
how they decide…
how they lead.
Others skim just enough to sound informed.
Then reject what feels uncomfortable.
Rinse. Spit. Move on.
The difference shows up later.
In decisions.
It’s a discipline.
Some people sit with ideas long enough to let them change how they think…
how they decide…
how they lead.
Others skim just enough to sound informed.
Then reject what feels uncomfortable.
Rinse. Spit. Move on.
The difference shows up later.
In decisions.
📣 Availability Cascade: When a belief feels true because you hear it everywhere. Repetition boosts confidence—not accuracy. Loud ideas spread faster than careful ones. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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Bias Break: Availability Cascade
When Repetition Masquerades as Truth
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December 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
📣 Availability Cascade: When a belief feels true because you hear it everywhere. Repetition boosts confidence—not accuracy. Loud ideas spread faster than careful ones. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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📊 Averaging Bias: When your brain averages numbers that should be summed—and accidentally minimizes extremes. “Seems reasonable” isn’t the same as “is accurate.”
#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #DecisionMaking
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#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #DecisionMaking
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Bias Break: Averaging Bias
When “Reasonable” Math Produces the Wrong Answer
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December 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
📊 Averaging Bias: When your brain averages numbers that should be summed—and accidentally minimizes extremes. “Seems reasonable” isn’t the same as “is accurate.”
#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #DecisionMaking
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#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #DecisionMaking
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🎯 Illusion of Control: When your brain anchors to effort and assumes control over outcomes that are mostly random. Planning feels powerful—but chance still runs the room.
#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #DecisionMaking
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#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #DecisionMaking
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Bias Break: The Illusion of Control
When Effort Pretends to Be Influence
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December 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🎯 Illusion of Control: When your brain anchors to effort and assumes control over outcomes that are mostly random. Planning feels powerful—but chance still runs the room.
#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #DecisionMaking
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#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #DecisionMaking
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🧠 Attribute Substitution: When a hard question shows up, your brain quietly answers an easier one instead—and acts like the problem’s solved. Fast thinking. Wrong target.
#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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Bias Break: Attribute Substitution
When the Brain Answers the Wrong Question and Feels Proud About It
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December 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
🧠 Attribute Substitution: When a hard question shows up, your brain quietly answers an easier one instead—and acts like the problem’s solved. Fast thinking. Wrong target.
#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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🧲 Attitude Polarization: When the same evidence makes people more certain they’re right—and more convinced the other side is wrong. Facts don’t fail. Brains double down.
#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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Bias Break: Attitude Polarization
Why Evidence Can Make Us Dig In Deeper
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December 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🧲 Attitude Polarization: When the same evidence makes people more certain they’re right—and more convinced the other side is wrong. Facts don’t fail. Brains double down.
#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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👀 Apophenia: When your brain finds patterns in pure randomness. Clouds turn into faces. Coincidences turn into “signs.” Meaning appears where none exists. Beautiful… and dangerous without grounding. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CognitiveScience
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Bias Break: Apophenia
When the Brain Invents Patterns Out of Thin Air
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December 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
👀 Apophenia: When your brain finds patterns in pure randomness. Clouds turn into faces. Coincidences turn into “signs.” Meaning appears where none exists. Beautiful… and dangerous without grounding. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CognitiveScience
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🔗 Association Bias: When your brain links things that aren’t actually connected—just because they showed up together. Coincidence becomes “cause,” and logic takes a nap.
#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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Bias Break: Association Bias
When the Brain Connects Dots That Don’t Exist
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December 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🔗 Association Bias: When your brain links things that aren’t actually connected—just because they showed up together. Coincidence becomes “cause,” and logic takes a nap.
#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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#BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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📜 Appeal to Tradition: When we assume something is right just because it’s old. Age doesn’t equal truth. Tradition can guide, but it shouldn’t trap. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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Bias Break: Appeal to Tradition
When “We’ve Always Done It This Way” Becomes a Barrier to Truth
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December 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
📜 Appeal to Tradition: When we assume something is right just because it’s old. Age doesn’t equal truth. Tradition can guide, but it shouldn’t trap. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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✨ Appeal to Novelty: When your brain believes something is better just because it’s new. Fresh doesn’t always mean improved. Sometimes it’s the same old nonsense wearing a glow-up. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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Bias Break: Appeal to Novelty
When “New” Tricks the Brain Into Feeling Like “Better”
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December 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
✨ Appeal to Novelty: When your brain believes something is better just because it’s new. Fresh doesn’t always mean improved. Sometimes it’s the same old nonsense wearing a glow-up. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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👁️ Attentional Blink: When your brain focuses on one thing and becomes blind to what comes right after it. Not Attentional Bias (what you choose to notice) — this is what your brain literally can’t notice. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CognitiveScience
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Bias Break: Attentional Blink
When Your Brain Physically Can’t Keep Up
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December 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
👁️ Attentional Blink: When your brain focuses on one thing and becomes blind to what comes right after it. Not Attentional Bias (what you choose to notice) — this is what your brain literally can’t notice. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CognitiveScience
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⚓ Anchoring & Adjustment: Your brain grabs the first number it hears and refuses to move far from it. You adjust… but not enough. That first value becomes the trap. Break the anchor, then think. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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Bias Break: Anchoring & Adjustment
The First Number Is a Trap
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December 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
⚓ Anchoring & Adjustment: Your brain grabs the first number it hears and refuses to move far from it. You adjust… but not enough. That first value becomes the trap. Break the anchor, then think. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #CriticalThinking
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Emerson wasn’t playing when he said the only person you’re “destined” to be is the one you choose. Most folks treat destiny like a GPS they can’t override. Not true. Life hands you a sketch. You decide the lines, the shading, the whole vibe. Choice is the real architect.
December 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Emerson wasn’t playing when he said the only person you’re “destined” to be is the one you choose. Most folks treat destiny like a GPS they can’t override. Not true. Life hands you a sketch. You decide the lines, the shading, the whole vibe. Choice is the real architect.
📢 Authority Bias: When someone sounds important, so we stop thinking. Titles ≠ truth. Confidence ≠ accuracy. Check the info, not the status. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #ThinkForYourself
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Bias Break: Authority Bias
Why We Believe People Who Sound Like They Know Things
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December 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
📢 Authority Bias: When someone sounds important, so we stop thinking. Titles ≠ truth. Confidence ≠ accuracy. Check the info, not the status. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #ThinkForYourself
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❤️ Affect Heuristic: When your feelings decide before your logic shows up. Good vibes ≠ good reality. Bad vibes ≠ bad truth. Slow the emotion, check the facts. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #EQ
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Bias Break: Affect Heuristic
When Feeling Right Replaces Being Right
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December 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
❤️ Affect Heuristic: When your feelings decide before your logic shows up. Good vibes ≠ good reality. Bad vibes ≠ bad truth. Slow the emotion, check the facts. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #EQ
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🧠 Availability Bias: If you remember it easily, your brain thinks it happens a lot. Drama feels bigger than data. Slow down the story. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #SelfAwareness
December 1, 2025 at 8:38 PM
🧠 Availability Bias: If you remember it easily, your brain thinks it happens a lot. Drama feels bigger than data. Slow down the story. #BiasBreak #ABIDE4US #JoeQuote #SelfAwareness
Matt. 25 hits different when you notice it: the faithful workers never brag. They just build. No micromanaging. No comparison. Just quiet excellence. The third servant? Fear buried his future. Today’s move is simple—use what’s in your hands and keep moving. #QuietWorkWins #FaithAndWisdom #Leadership
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Matt. 25 hits different when you notice it: the faithful workers never brag. They just build. No micromanaging. No comparison. Just quiet excellence. The third servant? Fear buried his future. Today’s move is simple—use what’s in your hands and keep moving. #QuietWorkWins #FaithAndWisdom #Leadership