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
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
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
Yesterday I got an email from Loren Ekroth of Conversation Matters. It touches on a favourite theme of mine and here it is verbatim. “Christmas
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
I set up a Tweetscan for the word “warcraft” as I wondered what my fellow addictsplayers might be saying on twitter. I found it hilarious – and revealing. If you’re
You probably know the story, quite possibly apocryphal, of Ernest Shackleton’s newspaper ad for crew for his expedition to the South Pole: MEN WANTED FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. LOW WAGES, BITTER
Excellent piece by Anne Zelenka in Web Worker Daily. The busyness economy works on face time, incremental improvement strategic long-term planning, return on investment, and hierarchical control. The burst economy,
Parking lot: Living in open space Chris points to this comment (and explores further): “In my experience when the issue seems to be free speech, the deeper issue usually has
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