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After combing nearly 12, 000 daily diary entries from 238 workers, researchers found that the strongest force behind motivation and creativity wasn't the lever managers reach for " pay or praise " but something quieter: progress on work that mattered
4+ min ago (401+ words) Mal James is a writer at Silicon Canals covering psychology, productivity, and the patterns that determine whether ambitious work compounds or burns out. Ask most managers what makes for a good day at work and you'll probably get a predictable…...
Using more than 35 years of US survey data, some researchers found Americans were happier in years of lower income inequality " and the link seemed to run not through money, but through how fair and trustworthy others felt
7+ hour, 5+ min ago (251+ words) In 2011, three researchers published a paper in Psychological Science that did something unusual with one of the longest-running datasets in American social science. That is the headline finding. Keep in mind that this is a single correlational study built on…...
Juggling several tasks at once feels efficient, but researchers have found that each switch quietly costs time and accuracy " via hidden mental stages of shifting goals and reloading rules that compound
10+ hour, 45+ min ago (560+ words) Mal James is a writer at Silicon Canals covering psychology, productivity, and the patterns that determine whether ambitious work compounds or burns out. Here's how many of my mornings go. Here's how many of my mornings go. I sit down…...
It is a federal crime in America to sell a kidney to save a dying patient, yet a whole donated body cut into parts and shipped for research sits in a legal gap Congress never thought to close
11+ hour, 44+ min ago (759+ words) The 1984 National Organ Transplant Act made it a federal felony to pay a donor family for a transplantable kidney. The same law left a parallel industry " whole bodies donated to non-transplant brokers and resold in pieces for thousands of dollars…...
America's body brokers turned donated bodies into a multimillion-dollar trade
11+ hour, 20+ min ago (1137+ words) A 2017 Reuters investigation traced 50, 000 donated American bodies through 34 brokers in just four years, with more than 180, 000 individual parts shipped to buyers ranging from surgical schools to Army blast-test labs " almost none of it described on the consent forms families signed....
Thought of the day from author Booker T. Washington: "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
12+ hour, 44+ min ago (438+ words) Mal James is a writer at Silicon Canals covering psychology, productivity, and the patterns that determine whether ambitious work compounds or burns out. For a long stretch of my life, I measured myself by the rung " what title sat next…...
Sperm whales sleep vertically in pods near the ocean surface, motionless and silent for brief stretches, in a posture marine biologists first documented with acoustic tags in 2008
12+ hour, 43+ min ago (443+ words) Sperm whales sleep nose-up in tight pods just below the surface, motionless and silent for ten to fifteen minutes at a time. Biologists had no documented record of the posture until a Royal Caribbean crew filmed one by accident in…...
Nobody talks about why people in their late 40s suddenly start sleeping better in hotels than at home, and it isn't the mattress or the blackout curtains, it's that hotel rooms have no unfinished tasks looking at them
15+ hour, 4+ min ago (888+ words) The reason middle-aged adults sleep better in hotels isn't the mattress or the blackout curtains. It's the Zeigarnik effect, sleep architecture, and the rare experience of a room with no unfinished tasks in it. Most explanations for why people sleep…...
On July 20, 1969, as Apollo 11 descended toward the Sea of Tranquility, Margaret Hamilton's software survived five alarms in four minutes because her team had built a priority scheduler that shed lower-priority tasks instead of crashing
16+ hour, 34+ min ago (1308+ words) The Apollo Guidance Computer overloaded five times during Eagle's descent on July 20, 1969. Margaret Hamilton's team had built it to survive exactly that " and the priority scheduler they wrote is why Armstrong landed at all. Margaret Hamilton was not inside the…...
A Colorado funeral home returned fake ashes to grieving families while selling their loved ones by the body part
17+ hour, 4+ min ago (1405+ words) Megan Hess ran a funeral home and a body-parts brokerage out of the same Colorado building. Federal prosecutors found she sold more than 500 donated and non-donated bodies while returning concrete dust and strangers' remains to grieving families. Megan Hess ran…...