What to Do with Climate Emotions
newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/what-to-do-with-climate-emotionsIf the goal is to insure that the planet remains habitable, what is the right degree of panic, and how do you bear it?
The Art and Science of Spending Money · Collab Fund
collabfund.com/blog/the-art-and-science-of-spending-money/Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch once nearly died of a heart attack.
The Dangers of Elite Projection
humantransit.org/2017/07/the-dangers-of-elite-projection.html(Leer en español aquí.) Elite projection is the belief, among relatively fortunate and influential people, that what those people find convenient or attractive is good for the society as a whole. Once you learn to recognize this simple mistake, you see it everywhere. It is perhaps the single most comprehensive barrier to prosperous, just, and […]
We don’t have a hundred biases, we have the wrong model
worksinprogress.co/issue/biases-the-wrong-model/Behavioral economics has identified dozens of cognitive biases that stop us from acting 'rationally'. But instead of building up a messier and messier picture of human behavior, we need a new model.
The productivity tax you pay for context switching
async.twist.com/context-switching/How distraction became our default way of working and what you can do to reclaim your focus
Venting doesn’t work.
slate.com/technology/2022/03/venting-makes-you-feel-worse-psychology-research.htmlResearchers proved decades ago that venting won’t make you feel better.
dscout + HmntyCntrd: Challenging Company Playbooks to Workplace Trauma
dscout.com/people-nerds/organizational-traumaDesign professionals report on organizational trauma—and the inadequate ways their orgs address It.
A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children
sciencealert.com/cuttlefish-can-pass-a-cognitive-test-designed-for-childrenA new test of cephalopod smarts has reinforced how important it is for us humans to not underestimate animal intelligence.