iDoneThis blog: Silicon Valley's Productivity Secret
iDoneThis blog: Silicon Valley's Productivity Secret:
The wonder of Silicon Valley has been its rich history of producing incredibly capital efficient companies operating at massive scale. No doubt part of that achievement lies in the capital efficiency of software engineering itself where technology gives incredible leverage to create and disrupt…
emergentfutures: Why Regret Makes Buying Experiences Better...
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Why Regret Makes Buying Experiences Better than Buying Stuff
“When you buy an object, like a computer, you may experience buyer’s remorse. That is, soon after buying it, you may regret buying that particular computer, because you could have bought another one (or something else entirely). You are much less likely to regret buying an experience. Think about a big concert going in on your town. You are more likely to regret passing up the opportunity to go to the concert than you are to regret buying a ticket to go.”
Full Story: Psychology Today
"The Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns found that people who dissent from group wisdom..."
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The Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns found that people who dissent from group wisdom show heightened activation in the amygdala, a small organ in the brain associated with the sting of social rejection. Berns calls this the “pain of independence.”
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The organizational psychologist Adrian Furnham puts it pretty bluntly: The “evidence from science suggests that business people must be insane to use brainstorming groups. If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.”
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An interesting line of research by the psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory Feist suggests that the most creative people in many fields are usually introverts. This is probably because introverts are comfortable spending time alone, and solitude is a crucial (and underrated) ingredient for creativity.
”<br/><br/> - The Power of Introverts — www.scientificamerican.com — Readability
"Stimulants generally have the same effects for all children and adults. They enhance the ability to..."
“Stimulants generally have the same effects for all children and adults. They enhance the ability to concentrate, especially on tasks that are not inherently interesting or when one is fatigued or bored, but they don’t improve broader learning abilities.”<br/><br/> -
Of course Ritalin doesn’t improve learning abilities. But that’s OK, because schooling in the USA isn’t about learning anyway, it’s about enculturating compliance and uniformity.
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<br/><br/>Ideals Can Conflict
By Robin Hanson, overcomingbias.com
The usual wisdom says we are most creative when working in groups that avoid criticism. This is wrong:
His book … was published in 1948. … Osborn’s most celebrated idea was … the essential rules of a successful brainstorming sessi…
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