NY restaurants were made to post the calories of all their meals. The effect may have been to encourage people to make less healthy food choices.
Jonah Lehrer reflects on this particular manifestation of the law of unintended consequences. Maybe more calories gets equated in our minds with more pleasure.
I think it’s easy to overvalue information as a means of controlling behaviour.
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges
Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in
I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big
In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason
I really enjoy Chris Rodgers’ views on leadership. He argues against the assumption that it takes great leadership for organisations to succeed. He suggests that
I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe
Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Well now you need wonder no more. A friend told me about this (no, seriously… my Feedster feed on improvisation turned it up). Is it
Alan Moore has a long and thought-provoking post on what seems like a looming battle between forces of openness and control when it comes to the future of networks. Central
I’m getting to a certain age and I think I’ve been to enough crappy conferences and events in this lifetime. I am all for adventure and risking failure. But I’m
It was hard to resist the allure of Eaon’s post, the route to everything. He starts off with the Japanese idea of Kyo-chi-gyo-i. In this Kyo is Goal. Chi is
Thoughts on the book Good Business: Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – and relating his themes of complexity and work satisfaction to Improv.
