Laura Pike Seeley
@laurapikeseeley
Laura Pike Seeley
As designers, it is our responsibility to explore the discomfort zone, design holistically, and consider the full range of possibilities of what we create.
IDEO • To Design a Better Future, Embrace the Uncomfortable
This blog post is about how to manage information overload in the digital age. It discusses how technology has made information more accessible and easier to share, but also how this can lead to anxiety. The author describes how to counter some of the effects of information overload, including by using Mem’s latest feature, Mem It for Twitter.
Mem • TL;DR | The Memo
Test Your Knowledge: The Information Overload Pop Quiz
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The benefits of play are immense across all ages, research shows
hechingerreport.orgIt’s human nature to tackle obstacles head-on, but this often results in us banging our heads against the wall or feeling completely paralyzed. The secret of hackers is that instead of avoiding or confronting the bottlenecks that lie in their way, they work around them.
Why Managers Should Think More Like Hackers
Though food security levels have been dwindling for decades, recent crises have exacerbated the decline.
Scientists Say We Could Feed 1 Billion More People With One Change to the Global Food System
Numerous psychological studies have found that we seek out information that supports our pre-existing views – and avoid information that might contradict them.
This cognitive bias can push people into more extreme ideological positions | BPS
Your brain is locked in silence and darkness inside your skull, and all it is trying to do is understand the structures of the world so it can operate in it better. Whenever it encounters a surprise, it writes that down and it makes changes to your circuitry.... See more
But as you go through life and your brain develops better models of the world, less and
Want to Feel You're Living a Longer, Fuller Life? Neuroscience Says Making Denser Memories Is the Best Way to Slow the Passage of Time
With technology racing forward at an ever increasing pace, some advancements can impact us on an unprecedented scale. As shapers of the future, we must strive to understand the consequences and implications of emerging technology. We do this by asking ourselves uncomfortable questions about possible outcomes.