How does design impact behavior, actions, decisions, etc. In the book, “Happy City” it says:” Road studies have found that most of us drive not according to posted speed limits, but according to how safe the road feels. We drive as fast as road designs tell us to drive. The result: drivers kill four times…

In your personal life, “first times” are often moments we reflect back on with a found smile and childhood twinkle in our eyes. In your professional life, ” first times” are worth reflecting on , and often laughing about, too. At the beginning of your career maybe some of your “first times” were learning to…

If a dictator was overtaking your land, would you burn it to spite him? That’s just what happened in 1812 when Napoleon was on an aggressive campaign through Russia. The Russians assumed a unique but mutually harmful defense strategy: burn down villages, towns and crops, preventing Napoleons troops from living off their land. They killed…

Benefits of scaling an operation you’ve been in on the ground level: a holistic view with context. You have a really good understanding of the business You made mistakes and gained valuable learned into the why behind necessary changes You have a better understanding of what each role is like You know what departments work…

Gary Becker and Luis Rayo at the University of Chicago combined a variety of fields from psychology and brain science into an algorithm that describes a trap most economists believe is endemic (not pandemic, it’s 2021 now!) to our species. They crowned this algorithm “The Happiness Function” to explain the physiological process that both fuels…