Content tagged with "behavior"

A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder - How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-The-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place
Book Review
October 16, 2021
355

A book which makes a wonderful claim: not everything has to be perfect. We spend our lives thinking we need to get everything organized, but this book argues that often, we just…don’t. An early and establishing example from the book – Two people are asked to find a specific playing card from a…

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Book Review
January 24, 2024
23
Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
Deane’s Library
Book Review
May 25, 2024
248

This book started promising, but got a bit scattered at the end. The basic premise is that humans are hard-wired to add to every situation. The solution to every problem, it seems, is to add something to it. But maybe we should look at subtracting instead? Some examples from the book: …I don’t know…

The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class
Deane’s Library
Book Review
September 5, 2017
65

Vaguely interesting book about how people spend their money on “luxury” items in order to publicly denote a certain level of social class. Lots of figures, graphs, etc. Not 100% of the point that it was trying to get at, honestly.