rands

The sad truth is, we can be absolutely awful at making decisions that affect our long-term happiness. Recent work by psychologists has charted a set of predictable cognitive errors that lead us to mistakes like eating too much junk food, or saving too little for retirement. These quirks lead us to make similarly predictable errors when deciding where to live, how to live, how to move, and even how to build our cities.

(By Charles Montgomery via National Post)

Those candidates got a study guide, free books, and an open invitation to proceed with the process whenever they were ready. The $80 in books we sent candidates had one of the best ROIs of any investment we made anywhere in the business. Some of our best hires couldn’t have happened without us bringing the candidate up to speed, first.

(By Thomas H. Ptacek via Quartz)

Of course it isn’t. Almost everything changes all the time. A statistic or data point is a tiny speck floating in a sea of ever changing context. People change, attitudes and behaviors change, tastes change, the economy changes, our minds, bodies, relationships and priorities change. The Observer Effect describes how something can change just by the process of measuring it.

(By Dan Zambonini via Medium)

Oh yeah, rendered in real time.

“At bedtime there was some discussion of whether an army of predators could beat an army of aliens. The issue was never resolved.”

(By Matt Zoller Seitz via Coudal]

Michael Sippey on Medium:

“The fundamental unit of the blog is not the blog post. The fundamental unit of the blog is the stream.”

Also, Sippey is blogging on Stating the Obvious. His original blog with the same name was a major inspiration for Rands in Repose.

Via Quartz:

These and other findings led the researchers to identify the key patterns: children play to get oxygen, to understand hierarchy, to achieve mastery at a skill, and to socialize. The patterns were simplified into four categories: under the radar, hierarchy, mastery, and social play.