7 Reasons the 21st Cenury is Making You Miserable
Seven reasons the 21st century is making you miserable — this is a fascinating look at how isolated we've become.
Seven reasons the 21st century is making you miserable — this is a fascinating look at how isolated we've become.
Thinking styles — I'm very well-rounded, which surprises me [via Jeff, who is wholly sequential]
Scott Adams: My compliments to you
The amazing dots, an illusion forwarded by Jeff.
Overclocking your reading speed — ironically, at Leo's blog but not by Leo
For Kris and her smug little lab friends: How to train your spouse. Hint: nagging is not the answer.
I know it may seem strange that as a parent with only cats for children I actually read a parenting blog, but Parent Hacks is a regular read for me. (Partly because Asha has been so supportive of GRS.) There's a great discussion going on there right now about the problem with star charts. I suspect many of you could get some good stuff out of this debate.
The gentle art of selling yourself. You are your own finest creation. Here are tips for making the best possible impression. (Note to self: this is an important early entry for success daily, once it launches.)
Tammy on whole language vs. phonics. I'm with her 100% on this one.
The brain scan that can read people's intentions. Welcome to the future.
A Girl Like Me, a conversation about race. The clip with the kids and the dolls is heartbreaking. [via frykitty]
Bowling Alone — through a strange twist of fate, this was the most recent del.icio.us bookmark when I checked the site. It's also the book we're reading for bookgroup this month.
AskMe: Does having children make people less happy? Studies show that kids decrease happiness levels in parents slightly. Here are some anecdotal responses.
Life 2.0: The Little Book of Flow — an encapsulation of the idea of "flow" in a longish blog entry
How do you match your external self to your internal self? What changes can you make to alter people's perception of you?
For Pam and Sabino and Marcela: research into language acquisition in children, particularly in bilingual children. Fascinating science!
This is awesome. Hating America isn't really about hating America, but about the cultural adaptations one makes after spending a long time in a third-world country and then returning to the U.S. Why is it that everyone who comes back finds the U.S. more foreign than the country they're returning from? Excellent reading.
In the company of Zen, a conversation with Robert Pirsig
The Book of Current Superstitions (from 1896)
The 1% Rule — in online communities, 1% of users create content, 10% interact with it, and 89% simply watch. But everyone benefits from the content. Very interesting.
The secret to wisdom is strong opinions weakly held [via kottke]
Yo, Proffitt-Smiths! Is psychology a science?
Wikipedia: Smile!
Caring for your inner introvert — the habits and needs of a little-understood group [via rich]
AskMe: How do I stop surfing the internet at work? I'd like to learn how to stop surfing the internet, period.
Adapt to experience: "Nothing is more important than developing the ability to learn and understand new things that enable you to change.
If you can change your future is open. If you are incapable of change your future is closed."
Five things likely to make you happy in the short term. Why aren't Hostess Sno-Balls on the list? [via frykitty]
Awesome! A MeFi post on Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and the concept of flow. I'm already working on a weblog entry about this subject (which was introduced to me by Lisa).
How to spot a baby conservative. This twenty-year study shows that children who were whiny and insecure tend to grow up to be conservatives and "confident, resilient, self-reliant" children tend to grow up to be liberals. [via kottke]
A couple of psychology links: un-demoralize, defeating defeatism; and theories about friendship from changingminds.org. [both are from an AskMe thread I've lost...]