Laura Pike Seeley
@laurapikeseeley
Laura Pike Seeley
Your milieu is not the same as your sister’s. It is an ever-shifting, individual configuration of information flows. The Twitter feed you have curated is a milieu. Your friend group (which is not the same as the friend groups of the other people in that group!) is a milieu.
It is by changing your milieu that you change yourself.
It is by changing your milieu that you change yourself.
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
culture and Relationships
Sometimes, it’s really hard to be happy. And there’s a reason for that: The human brain isn’t hard-wired for happiness. Why? Because happiness isn’t essential for survival.
Why humans are surprisingly bad at being happy
Managers could benefit from thinking more like hackers. Hacking helps us take a step back from the worn-out management tenets of efficiency, long-term planning, hierarchical decision-making, and full information, to adopt instead more adaptable strategies.
Why Managers Should Think More Like Hackers
Neighborhoods that “improve” due to gentrification may do so in a manner that serves everyone living there—new sidewalks, more trees, more streetlights, cleaner streets—but how long can existing residents remain in a landscape that becomes rapidly unaffordable and alienating to them?
The Five Senses of Gentrification
Ambivalent relationships are unpredictable. With a clear enemy, you put up a shield when you cross paths. With a frenemy, you never know whether Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde is going to show up.
Adam Grant • Opinion | Your Most Ambivalent Relationships Are the Most Toxic
The powerful link between educating girls and fighting the climate crisis
Angela Priestleywomensagenda.com.au
Whether or not our collective attention spans are shrinking is up for debate, as is the notion that this is destructive to our minds and relationships. What doesn't appear to be up for debate is that the crux of this issue lies in our relationship with technology, particularly networking technologies.