Happiness is a result of effort, but effort that’s directed towards meaningful goals, not necessarily the goal of being happy. Daniel Kahneman makes a distinction between two selves: the experiencing self and the remembering self. The experiencing…
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A psychologist, designer, and behavioural economist walk into a lab, and out comes a font for remembering more of what you read.
Sometimes the role of design is to be invisible. Not literally, but in that it should be so easy to process that instinct alone can guide people. Everything should be so clear and obvious that…
In 1930 Bertrand Russell published a book that he hoped would “suggest a cure for the ordinary day-to-day unhappiness from which most people in civilized countries suffer.” Whether we still suffer in the same ways…
There’s a lot of people that would love to be more creative, but while the benefits to a heightened creative capacity are clear, creativity itself comes in many shapes and sizes. This makes it rather…