Americanism
“The growing speed of daily life, of news and work and play was a fetish of artists and industrialists alike,” Blom writes. “Never before had so much social change occurred so quickly.” As daily life sped up, people in the west started to break down.
Around the turn of the century, a nervous disorder first diagnosed in the U.S. gradually made its... See more
Around the turn of the century, a nervous disorder first diagnosed in the U.S. gradually made its... See more
1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind
Flirting Parties and Romantic Gorpcore
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journals.uchicago.eduWhen men feel their masculinity is threatened, they are 24 percentage-points more likely to want to buy an SUV. They are also willing to pay $7,320 more than non-threatened men for the same vehicle.
Cognitive load is like playing an iterated game of diminishing returns. Every choice—every click, every scroll—saps a little more of your mental energy. By the time you’re 20 decisions deep, your ability to make intentional choices is shot. It’s not that you’ve lost the game; you’ve been worn down by it.
In behavioral economics, this is known as... See more
In behavioral economics, this is known as... See more
The Sociology of Business, Ana Andjelic
internal IBM training in 1979
Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.
Gary Snyder — poet, anthropologist and ecological steward