Monthly Archives: March 2017

Living and Loving Through Loss: Beautiful Letters of Consolation from Great Artists, Writers, and Scientists

Living and Loving Through Loss: Beautiful Letters of Consolation from Great Artists, Writers, and Scientists from: March 26, 2017 at 07:35PM

Pleasure and the good life

Pleasure and the good life from: March 26, 2017 at 04:38PM

How The ‘Scarcity Mindset’ Can Make Problems Worse

How The ‘Scarcity Mindset’ Can Make Problems Worse from: March 24, 2017 at 10:56PM

Complacent or Crazy? Two books on our time

Complacent or Crazy? Two books on our time “A society that has lost that confidence can easily become a society dissatisfied with an insecure status quo but too risk averse to do anything about it beyond complaining. As Cowen suggests, this may be the biggest of all the risks we face. And as Poulos suggests, […]

Small populations make it harder to do what Nordic countries do

Small populations make it harder to do what Nordic countries do “What’s so remarkable about the Nordic countries is that they manage to pull off their systems despite the considerable handicap of small populations and small market sizes. Despite all the pressures being small puts on having lower wages and lower taxes in order to […]

What if Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Had Swapped Genders?

What if Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Had Swapped Genders? “A restaging of the presidential debates with an actress playing Trump and an actor playing Clinton yielded surprising results. [..] The simplicity of Trump’s message became easier for people to hear when it was coming from a woman—that was a theme. One person said, “I’m […]

Color in UI Design: A (Practical) Framework

Color in UI Design: A (Practical) Framework “Darker color variations are made by lowering brightness and increasing saturation. Brighter color variations are made by increasing brightness and lowering saturation. […] The important bit is this: if you don’t count saturation and brightness, shifting hue towards red (0°), green (120°), or blue (240°) will decrease the […]

Great Companies Obsess Over Productivity, Not Efficiency

Great Companies Obsess Over Productivity, Not Efficiency “Efficiency is about doing the same with less. […] Productivity is about doing more with the same. […] Inspired employees bring more discretionary energy to their work every day. As a result, they are 125% more productive than an employee who is merely satisfied. Stated differently, one inspired […]

Feel like a loser?

Feel like a loser? “Whether you look at fish or humans, research keeps finding the same thing. When you win, you win more. When you lose, you lose more. Losers don’t just lose more, they don’t even bother to come back to compete again. Winners on the other hand, even if their win was faked […]