Laura Pike Seeley
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Laura Pike Seeley
The idea is to make urban areas less dependent on cars as part of the fight against climate change. The 15-minute city framework emphasizes bringing the essentials of daily life — work, entertainment, schools and green space — within a short walk or bicycle ride from home, reducing vehicle use and dramatically cutting carbon and pollution... See more
A Global Push for More ‘15-Minute Cities’
There are those who fear that modern knowledge workers are losing the ability to "go deep" and achieve a state of flow, an erosion that undermines true learning, innovation and professional success.
Laura Pike Seeley Follow @lpikeseeley • Deep Work and the Digital Workplace
We often think about relationships on a spectrum from positive to negative. But the most toxic relationships aren’t the purely negative ones. They’re the ones that are a mix of positive and negative.
Adam Grant • Opinion | Your Most Ambivalent Relationships Are the Most Toxic
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.
IDEO • To Design a Better Future, Embrace the Uncomfortable
So here is the take-home lesson. We have to seek novelty, because this is what lays down new memories in the brain.
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
The rule of reframing can look different depending on what you're dealing with. But it always involves seeing a problem from a different angle, with the goal of breaking a cycle of harmful thoughts and behavior.
Justin Bariso • Emotionally Intelligent People Use the Rule of Reframing to Change Their Perspective, Think Differently, and Reduce Anxiety
fear of crime is deeply embedded in American society, and positive news about falling crime rates won’t simply make that fear go away.
Abdallah Fayyad • Why do Americans always think crime is going up?
The ability to connect and form strong social bonds is fundamental to human experience and emerged through unique structures in our brains. But ever-more-powerful technologies and ubiquitous access to media have hijacked our need to connect intimately and emotionally with others.