This is My Most Expensive Habit: Anxiety.
Psychology
2024-12-17
2024-12-08
Smartphones don’t suck. People do: We shouldn’t let our phones bore us so often.
2024-12-03
leadership: ‘…the single most important trait of a good leader is the ability to listen to someone who has less power than you do about the ways in which you’ve fucked up’
2024-11-26
The far right grows through “disaster fantasies”: Their prioritisation of imaginary disasters that require individual solutions over real disasters that need collective action.
2024-11-13: I’m reluctant to volunteer my own evidence-free theory into the morass of folk providing …
2024-11-12
‘Five to ten seconds appears to be optimal’: the science behind hugs: Why hugs are good.
2024-10-27: Tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical …
2024-10-23: Two types of information overload: the situational vs the ambient
2024-10-17: It is a battle evident in the psyche of many partnered people, and especially so in midlife. It …
2024-10-03
The Riddle of Ambition: Don’t commoditise your ambition - use it to know yourself.
2024-09-26
A battle with the gods: Exercising creativity is difficult, but forgoing the attempt may be even worse.
2024-09-18
‘Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?': A less widely-known Milgram experiment - asking someone to let you have their subway seat.
2024-07-23: Think about your actual rather than idealised office when deciding whether to go into work
2024-07-03: A new Channel 4 documentary asks us 'Can AI steal your vote?'
2024-06-02: 📚 Finished reading Lost in a Good Game by Pete Etchells.
2024-03-07: The day Replika lobotomised everyone's AI girlfriend
2024-01-09: Compassion beats empathy in a helpless situation
2024-01-06: Visiting Sigmund Freud's last home
2023-12-22: 📚 Finished reading Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth.
2023-11-28: 📚 Finished reading The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul.
2023-11-21: Humans will go to considerable effort to get obviously useless information
2023-11-15: 📚 Finished reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
2023-10-22: In a recent paper, researchers compared the trends in Google searches that suggest people are …
2023-09-21: What causes the Overton Paradox?