As a previous post mentioned, I recently visited Japan and noticed what most people notice when they go to Japan: it’s an incredibly clean place, even by Canadian standards. And the strange part is that there are almost no garbage cans to be found. That’s probably where most people stop thinking about it. But one…
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“The fundamental problem is that an evolved mind must pay attention to indirect cues of biological fitness, rather than tracking fitness itself. This was a key insight of evolutionary psychology in the early 1990s; although evolution favors brains that tend to maximize fitness (as measured by numbers of great-grandkids), no brain has capacity enough to…
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“We’re creating a culture of clickers, stumblers and jaded spectators who decide in the space of a moment whether to watch and participate (or not). Imagine if people went to the theatre or the movies and stood up and walked out after the first six seconds. Imagine if people went to the senior prom and…