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Collaboration Kills Creativity, According to Science

Collaboration, rather than sparking creativity, results in group-think and mediocrity.

Linked on 26th November 2017 Details

To cure affluenza, we have to be satisfied with the stuff we already own

I never looked at it that way: consumerism is the love of buying things, materialism is the love of the things themselves.

Linked on 26th November 2017 Details

Against Productivity

We need to be bored more. This is an important read.

Linked on 25th November 2017 Details

Death by consumerism

Photo taken Just off the shopping shrine that is Regent Street in London.

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Posted on 25th November 2017 Details

In 2017, UK water companies still rely on “magic”

This is surreal. I wonder how many other sectors are applying pseudoscience to every day work.

Linked on 21st November 2017 Details

We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads

This has been on my mind a lot recently. Zeynep Tufekci explains the problem in a much clearer way than I ever could.

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Posted on 21st November 2017 Details