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Laurie Santos’s Pursuit of Happiness
Stumbling on Happiness by Dan Gilbert Gilbert researches the ways in which we’re bad at predicting what’ll make us happy, and what might hurt us. Prospection is an amazing power that humans have, but it’s kind of in beta version. One of our systematic errors is that we constantly overestimate the effects—magnitude and duration—that our circumstances will have on us. It’s what Gilbert refers to as impact bias.
Why we make bad decisions
Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness -- sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. Watch through to the end for a sparkling Q&A with some familiar TED faces.
Adventures with metrics in The Times and The Sunday Times newsroom - Part 2: Article insights
TLDR: There are inherent problems with newsrooms trying to measure the performance of an article based on how readers engage with it online. We’ve talked before about how we avoid traditional web analytics metrics, at least in terms of how they are normally presented, and try to account for context — such as length, position on the page and other factors — before making data available. Here we explain: How we visualise this data to help the newsroom find better article insights faster.
Transcript of "The psychology of your future self"
At every stage of our lives we make decisions that will profoundly influence the lives of the people we're going to become, and then when we become those people, we're not always thrilled with the decisions we made. So young people pay good money to get tattoos removed that teenagers paid good money to get. Middle-aged people rushed to divorce people who young adults rushed to marry. Older adults work hard to lose what middle-aged adults worked hard to gain. On and on and on.
Adventures with metrics in a newsroom
By Dan Gilbert An obligatory image with lots of dots to represent lots of precise data - but what we can and should learn from it is typically blurry. TLDR: Designing metrics that help you make better decisions is hard. In The Times and The Sunday Times newsrooms we have spent a lot of time trying to tackle three particular problems. How do we put metrics into context, so the people who use them can quickly understand if a value is good, bad or neither?
Bill Gates Recommends You Read These Books This Summer If You’re Stuck At Home Or Need A Distraction
Billionaire bookworm Bill Gates recommends five books for the summer. Gates Ventures Bill Gates just released his annual list of five books to read this summer, hoping that some of his favorites may help readers cope with the pandemic. “Most of my conversations and meetings these days are about Covid-19 and how we can stem the tide,” Gates writes in his website, Gates Notes. He and his wife, Melinda, have directed their foundation to commit some $300 million to fighting the coronavirus.
Designing better digital metrics in The Times and The Sunday Times newsrooms
At The Times and The Sunday Times, like many publishers, we work hard to try and make it easier for our newsrooms to use data to make better decisions. However, traditional digital analytics tools have fallen far short in helping us understand how our content is performing on our website and apps.
Blueprint Brokers Sale of Two Skilled Nursing Facilities in Southern Illinois for $5.5M
Blueprint Brokers Sale of Two Skilled Nursing Facilities in Southern Illinois for $5.5M EDWARDSVILLE, ILL. — Blueprint Healthcare Real Estate Advisors has brokered the sale of University Nursing and Rehabilitation Center and Edwardsville Nursing and Rehabilitation, both located in Edwardsville, for $5.5 million. The purchase price equates to approximately $24,000 per bed.
Search Advertising is Still Sexy - You’re Just Not Doing It Right
Hello, it’s me, Search advertising... why is nobody talking about me? OK, that’s enough of the first person narrative. Seriously though, last year PPC accounted for roughly half of global digital ad spend; approximately $92 billion will be spent on PPC this year. Surely no-one can dispute the value of a platform like AdWords for generating business growth, for transparency, measurability and accessibility. But is PPC exciting? It’s certainly old, in relative terms.
Are our problems a result of not living in the moment?
Question: Are our problems a result of not living in the moment? Dan Gilbert: I think most of the large issues of our day have to do with us living in the moment. Most of the problems that we’re creating for ourselves and for future generations are a result of us feeling perfectly happy right now. We’re a country of fat and happy people. Our malls are a wonderful place to go and consume and buy. We don’t have everything we want, but we sure have a lot.
Favorite Ted Talks
Explore Science Helped, Science Talk, and more!Alix Generous: How I learned to communicate my inner life with Asperger'sSee MoreDo our smells make us sexy? Popular science suggests yes — pheromones send chemical signals about sex and attraction from our armpits to potential mates. But, despite what you might have heard, there is no conclusive research confirming that humans have these smell molecules.
Favorite Ted Talks
Explore Science Helped, Science Talk, and more!Alix Generous is a young woman with a million and one ideas — she's done award-winning science, helped develop new technology and tells a darn good joke (you'll see). She has Asperger's, a form of autistic spectrum disorder that can impair the basic social skills required for communication, and she's worked hard for years to learn how to share her thoughts with the world.
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We all make decisions every day; we want to know what the right thing is to do -- in domains from the financial to the gastronomic to the professional to the romantic. And surely, if somebody could really tell us how to do exactly the right thing at all possible times, that would be a tremendous gift. It turns out that, in fact, the world was given this gift in 1738 by a Dutch polymath named Daniel Bernoulli.
HP Blogs - Digital Technology Transforms Government-Creating ... - The HP Blog Hub
Early in the Digital Age, it was common for people to change how they worked, where they worked, and the processes they undertook, “because the computer needed it.” Today, technology is commonplace and adapts to fit the way missions must be accomplished, and how government serves—whether by design or decree. In Part Two of this series, we examine the ways to manage risk in the digital age. As with most opportunities, there are many risks associated with managing transactions in the digital age.
HP Blogs - Digital Technology Transforms Government-Creating ... - The HP Blog Hub
Early in the Digital Age, it was common for people to change how they worked, where they worked, and the processes they undertook, “because the computer needed it.” Today, technology is commonplace and adapts to fit the way missions must be accomplished, and how government serves—whether by design or decree. Technology is everywhere, and it has created expectations of ease and simplicity that carry over to citizens’ expectations on how to interact with governments.
Dan Gilbert: Why we make bad decisions
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47 Mind-Blowing Psychological Facts You Should Know About Yourself
Ed McGowanI've decided to start a series called 100 Things You Should Know about People. As in: 100 things you should know if you are going to design an effective and persuasive website, web application or software application. Or maybe just 100 things that everyone should know about humans! The order that I'll present these 100 things is going to be pretty random. So the fact that this first one is first doesn't mean that's it's the most important.. just that it came to mind first.
The psychology of your future self
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Ten years later: Dan Gilbert on life after “The surprising science of happiness”
TEDTalks Dan Gilbert gave his first TED Talk in February 2004; The surprising science of happiness was one of the first we ever published, in September 2006. Here, the Harvard psychologist reminisces about the impact of TED, shares some suggestions of useful further reading — and owns up to some mistakes. When I gave this talk in 2004, the idea that videos might someday be “posted on the internet” seemed rather remote.
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