Check your Pulse #14
Sometimes human behaviour that seems nonsensical is really non-sensical
Rory Sutherland • Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
Successful introspection of a kind that leads to innovation involves a good deal of bravery because of how much of what we sincerely like, want or are opposed to differs from what society defines as normal. Prevailing assumptions about procedures and products often contain ideas and stock responses that have drifted very far from underlying truths,
... See moreThe School of Life • A Job to Love (The School of Life Library)
When curiosity is at tension with productivity, and play is eclipsed by monetization, we get nothing good.
As Rory Sutherland sees it,
As Rory Sutherland sees it,
“People effectively are laser focused on the things they can get bollocked for. And it's much, much easier to get bollocked for being illogical than it is to get bollocked for being unimaginative.... See more
You can't bollock
Matt Klein • Self-Sabotaging Innovation: The Art of Doing Dumb Shit
In Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?, advertising executive Rory Sutherland challenges our knee-jerk assumption that faster is always better. He asks us to consider what might happen if we approached problem-solving and decision-making with a more open-ended, human-centered perspective.
He offers a thought experiment: what if the brief to des... See more
He offers a thought experiment: what if the brief to des... See more
311 / The fallacy of faster
How to make users go ‘whoa’
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