Links for April 17, 2022

🧠 She Was Missing a Chunk of Her Brain. It Didn’t Matter. — Wired Our brains are incredibly plastic, even well into adulthood, and we've only just started to learn how they work. Case in point: A woman missing her left temporal lobe experiences no symptoms and discovered it

Links for April 10, 2022

⛰ Work 2.0: The Obstacles You Don’t See — Hidden Brain This podcast episode is well worth your time. It's a great reminder that one of the most powerful ways to market your ideas is to appeal to others' emotional desires: Introducing new ideas is hard. Most

Links for April 3, 2022

🧬 Complete Human Genome Sequenced for First Time In Major Breakthrough — VICE An amazing scientific milestone: Scientists have mapped an entire unbroken human genome for the first time, a milestone that completes the groundbreaking work started by the Human Genome Project decades ago, according to a motherlode of new studies published

Links for March 27, 2022

🚚 $87.50 for 3 Minutes: Inside the Hot Market for Videos of Idling Trucks — NY Times When trying to nudge behavior in a more environmentally-friendly direction, is a carrot or a stick better? As it turns out, you can use both: NYC is rewarding citizens for reporting idling trucks, to

Links for March 20, 2022

♻️ Forget ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle — The Atlantic Derek Thompson has a thought-provoking interview with Saul Griffith, an entrepreneur and MacArthur Grant recipient. He recently published a book that tries to shift the conversation around climate change towards much bolder ideas. Griffith is clearly someone who thinks about the world in a

Links for March 6, 2022

Tomorrow is the six month anniversary of the start of this blog, so I wanted to take the opportunity to briefly reflect, as well as announce some changes to my publishing format going forward. Six Months of Writing So far, I've published 173 posts, not including the weekly

Links for February 27, 2022

😴 The Power of Sleep — The Knowledge Project [Podcast] An interesting an actionable discussion on why sleep is so important, as well as what you can do to improve yours: Renowned sleep scientist Matthew Walker discusses everything you need to know about what a better night’s sleep can do for

Links for February 20, 2022

🏡 The Home Is the Future of Travel AirBnB is seeing a rise in "workcations," or people traveling to work remotely from different homes. The lines between work, personal, and vacation are blurring for people with the privilege to work remotely: Work and life are undergoing a “Great Convergence.

Links for February 13, 2022

⛷ How Olympians Embraced Mental Health After Biles Showed the Way — NY Times World-class athletes have to conduct their wellbeing just like everyone else. Biles has given more athletes space to share their challenges: She gave voice to the feelings they have shared — the doubts, the worries, the pressures. In speaking

Links for February 6, 2022

🧺 This startup is turning the laundromat into the doctor’s office — Fast Company Fabric Health is reducing the friction to access public health programs. One can imagine to scaling this approach to help enroll voters, provide support to folks in danger of losing their housing, and more: “You have to