TIME
Niksen Is the Dutch Lifestyle Concept of Doing Nothing—And You're About to See It Everywhere
4 min · · A new way to look at 'doing nothing' · Shared by 43, including Connie Ragen Green, Kaleigh Moore, Liv 😷, HealthyWomen.org, Dan Ariely
medium.com
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist — Medium
16+ min · · When using technology, we often focus optimistically on all the things it does for us. But I want you to show you where it might do the opposite. · Shared by 2878, including fernand0, Parin Vachhani, Leo Polovets, Ryan Boren, Ernst-Jan Pfauth, Brent Summers, Tristan Harris, Kenneth Kalmer, Curadoria | Update or Die!, Matthias Sala, Nir Eyal, Thomas Power, Chris Messina, David Cant ~👷🏻♂️, Courtney Bolton ★, Howard Getson, Matt Navarra, Rand Fishkin, Antonio Vieira Santos, hiten.eth
The Guardian
Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy
20+ min · · The long read: For 25 years, invoking this vague and ever-shifting nemesis has been a favourite tactic of the right – and Donald Trump’s victory is its greatest triumph · Shared by 59, including Howard Getson, Jason Stanley, APKYP, Liv 😷, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, George M 🇪🇺
Fast Company
Why your brain’s so bad at letting go of negative comments
3 min · · Plus: How you can train your brain to let go of this feedback. · Shared by 516, including jorge-ferrer, Helmi, Florian Hanke 🍎, LARRY ELKAN, Thomas Billeter, Desmond Williams, Matthias Lampe, Matt Heinz, Vikram Dutt, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), 瑞拿頭, Art Markman, commander zero, Gabriele, Liv 😷, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Thomas Power
Gabriel Weinberg
Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
Summary · · Update: Since this post came out, I co-authored a book about it called Super Thinking. Get notified about book updates here (currently… · Shared by 5674, including Konrad Weber, Tim Herbig, Data Science Renee, Thomas Schwenke, Klaus Eck, wahalulu@fosstodon.org Marck Vaisman, Matthias Sala, Antonio Vieira Santos, Pat Kua, Sid Sijbrandij, John Jantsch, Christiane Link, Leo Polovets, Craig Mod, Melanie Deziel (she/her), designshard, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Stefan T, Chris Messina
The Guardian
The link between stress and depression … and the 10 simple words that could help
7 min · · Neurological insights into how the brain processes stress, and how it can develop into depression, have led to new interventions · Shared by 304, including Niklaus Gerber, Liv 😷, Dean Burnett (@Garwboy@ohai.social), Fern, The Psychologist, Miguel Angel Escotet, Rich, Carly
youtube.com
Daniel Kahneman on Changing Someone's Mind
· Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman explains why trying to convince other people to change their mind is a waste of time. It turns out, the key isn't to apply mor... · Shared by 382, including Fabrizio Bianchi, Gianluca Diegoli, Zachary Becker, Jennifer Hurst, Liv 😷, Vikram Dutt
GQ Magazine
How to Get Your Brain to Shut Up
3 min · · Author Ryan Holiday on saying no, staying calm, and his new book Stillness is the Key. · Shared by 88, including Tauno, Thomas Power, Ryan Holiday, Liv 😷
The New Yorker
How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics
20+ min · · The mentalist’s manipulation techniques give people too sophisticated to believe in the paranormal something quasi-scientific to hang on to. · Shared by 89, including Simon Carless, Liv 😷, David Nagel, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Richard Wiseman, Michael Shermer
Mark Manson
5 Tenets of a Negative Self-Help
17+ min · · Look, I know what you want to hear. I know you want to hear that everything is going to be alright—no, better than alright, that it's going to be fucking amazeballs. I know you want to hear that the… · Shared by 207, including Liv 😷, Fern, Thomas Billeter
Harvard Business Review
How to Deal with Constantly Feeling Overwhelmed
4 min · · Five strategies can help. · Shared by 215, including Liv 😷, Lisa Gualtieri, HealthyWomen.org, Antonio Vieira Santos, Oscar MacDonald, Elena Neira, Ines Bieler, Kate Nasser, davidabrock, Charles Duhigg, Klaus Eck, Scott Galloway, Michael Hyatt, Elinor Stutz, Doug Sundheim, Diane Coyle, Stephanie A Kowalski