Why Simplicity Can Be Strength in a Complex World
As intuitive as it seems, a complicated approach to behavioral design may not be the best response to complexity.
As intuitive as it seems, a complicated approach to behavioral design may not be the best response to complexity.
When we lock into a particular goal too quickly, we blind ourselves to alternate routes forward that might have been better and easier. We can avoid this trap by asking ourselves one simple question.
The day is never coming when all the other stuff will be “out of the way,” so you can turn at last to building a life of meaning and accomplishment that hums with vitality. For finite humans, the time for that has to be now.
Take a moment to dive into the pieces your fellow behavioral science enthusiasts read most this year.
The history of behavioral science is minuscule relative to its future. As we look ahead, what questions will behavioral scientists be called upon to answer?
In June 2012, North Waziristan’s Taliban leader issued a fatwa banning polio vaccination campaigns. The violence came swiftly.
Work-life balance is about making trade-offs. How might we design workplaces that encourage employees to choose the right ones?
There are things we need to deliberately and consciously slow down for our own sanity and for our own productivity. If we don’t ask the question about what those things are, we might get things terribly, terribly wrong.
Psychologies, especially as represented in lists of biases, point out problems. Developing a pattern language would point us to solutions.
BS (behavioral science) without creativity—indeed BS without a tiny little whiff of BS (meaning bullshit)—is actually suboptimal.