Consuming mainstream news is a waste of your time. Here’s why I think we should all switch off the news and never turn it on again.
Backcasting and premortems encourage us to work backwards mentally from success and failure. Here’s why they can help improve our creativity.
The Feynman technique is a highly effective mental model to learn and understand concepts. These are the four steps to follow.
Modern routines can be a force for mental rigidity. Here’s what the research tells us about how to improve our cognitive flexibility and creativity.
Our obsession with streaks can be a force for good or bad. Here’s why streaks play such a powerful role in our psychology.
Leisure statistics paint a mixed picture on how we are allocating our time and how we might allocate it better.
We are powered by cycles, but our routines often fail to respect this reality. Here’s why we need to think, work and rest in cycles.
Commitment devices are an effective tool to form lasting new habits and kick old ones into the turf. Here’s how to use them.
A social media detox can bring about renewed focus and clarity. Here are the steps, the benefits and the takeaways from my own experience.
Inversion can help us see and solve problems differently by reversing the way in which we think about them.
Hanlon’s razor reminds us to avoid attributing behaviour to malice where it can be adequately explained by neglect or stupidity.
At last, the open-plan office is nearing its end. Here’s why the research shows us that’s something we should celebrate.
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