It’s so, so easy to learn things these days. We’ve been blessed with informational abundance for years, the internet bringing us wonders like the search engine, Wikipedia, and instructional YouTube videos that walk us through everything from changing the oil…
A friend of mine recently told me about her decision to start eating fish and eggs again, after many years of strict veganism. She realized she felt better when adding those two things back into her diet, and this has,…
I personally believe that we should put everyone out of work. That’s a big statement, and for all you know, I could be saying that the world’s workers are expendable, and as soon as we can automate them away, we…
The text on all the buttons in an app, the tiny instructions under a toggle on a website, and the pop-up tooltips you encounter on an otherwise confusing form is called microcopy, and writing it is a facet of user…
For the better part of a decade, I’ve maintained a habit of getting to bed as close to 8pm, maybe 8:30pm as possible. I then read for a spell before getting a solid 8-hours of sleep and waking up at…
Tools and systems can help us automate our tasks and routines, and much of the time, we should do exactly that when the opportunity arises. We perform many labors because someone has to (and the responsibility somehow fell on our…
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Pleasure is a relatively superficial but high-impact and immediate experience. Eating a candy bar can be pleasurable in that we’re flooded with happy chemicals when we consume certain combinations of sugars, fats, and sodium. Sometimes we pursue things because we…
When enthusiastic about something, it’s not uncommon to become so bogged down in details to the point that you never quite get around to getting started. Maybe instead of writing that book you’ve been dreaming up, you spend all your…
Especially at paradigm-fracturing moments when it feels like the ground is shifting, the world has changed, and our previously stable grip on “the way of things” has softened, it’s important to focus on exploration, understanding, and interest. As technologies, cultural…