Nick deWilde

"The problem isn’t the screens, it’s what's behind them. What screens have enabled is a gradual shifting of our locus of entertainment from internal to external. From entertainment being something we generate to something generated for us. And as a consequence, we’re losing the ability to entertain ourselves, relying on increasingly stimulating... See more

- complicated ideas take more energy to transmit than simple ones

- for every complex idea there are a large number of stupid copies

- people can often understand things without being able to articulate them, so when a person is helped by a complex meme, they will often reproduce and transmit a simpler variant of the original complex meme

- for some... See more

Our culture is attempting to glorify mental illness as a badge of honor, but the reality of living with these diseases is far from glorious.

Will the recession force workers back into the office to gain their boss' favor?