Elizabeth Weingarten is the head of behavioral science insights at Torch and a senior advisor at Behavioral Scientist. Previously, she worked at the behavioral science design firm ideas42, directed the Global Gender Parity Initiative at the think tank New America, and was the managing editor of Behavioral Scientist. She also worked on the editorial staffs of Slate, The Atlantic, and Qatar Today Magazine. She graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Why, really, shouldn’t milk be pink? Curiosity and insistence on questioning the status quo are among the qualities that separate the people who can’t wait to get to work from the ones who count the minutes until they can leave.
The current system of court summons strains everyone involved. There’s another way to approach the problem.
Every time I sat down to read—or to do anything that required sustained attention—I found I could only focus on a task for a few minutes. It felt like my brain had changed—for the worse.
It happened almost every night around 10 p.m. Some other part of my consciousness would guide my fingers towards other apps as if I was navigating a Ouija board.