January 2011
6 posts
“Remember, the more difficult you are early in your career, the less you will...”
– The wisdom of Amy Poehler
We are formed in relationship. →
That’s poetic. That’s pathetic. (No, poetic, but I couldn’t miss a chance to finish a Rent lyric.)
Trial by Fire: Did Texas execute an innocent man? →
Over the years, Willingham’s letters home became increasingly despairing. “This is a hard place, and it makes a person hard inside,” he wrote. “I told myself that was one thing I did not want and that was for this place to make me bitter, but it is hard.” He went on, “They have [executed] at least one person every month I have been here. It is senseless and brutal … You see, we are not living in...
Make dinner, make furniture, make an effort →
“The Ikea effect” seems an inappropriate name for the notion that we derive greater enjoyment from things we’ve worked harder to create. You can see the rationale of the researchers who coined it – there’s a unique pleasure to successful self-assembly – but they’d clearly had only atypically trouble-free encounters with Billy bookshelves. Yet, more generally,...