The human behaviour behind the work. Decision-making, attention, identity, performance, and the everyday observations that explain how people live and work inside the technology economy.
856 articles · Mind
A sustained loss of interest or pleasure can occur with depression, languishing, grief, stress or physical illness. Neither the word ‘fine’ nor one person’s social life can diagnose the cause.
What we call resilience is often just learned silence—the echo of people who told us our pain didn't matter.
For some adults, the difficulty of accepting a gift has little to do with gratitude and everything to do with a childhood lesson that generosity always came with a hidden invoice attached later.
What we read as intelligence in a room is mostly just confidence and attractiveness—the actual cognitive signal gets lost in the noise.
The generational comfort narrative reverses the usual complaint but makes the same mistake: crediting character for what structural conditions actually explain.
The couples who last aren't those who follow the rules—they're the ones who resist two reflexes when things go wrong.
A small Penn study found grit tracked GPA after SAT was controlled, while SAT and grit were slightly negatively correlated. The limits matter as much as the pattern.
How parents explain consequences—not just enforce them—shapes the moral choices their children make for life.
A review found median habit-formation estimates of 59 to 66 days, but only four of its 20 studies directly measured timing and the individual range was wide.
We mock older generations for clinging to phone calls and handwritten notes, but neuroscience and psychology suggest they were onto something all along.
Our intuitions about loneliness have it backwards: the young feel it most acutely, and understanding why upends everything we thought we knew about connection in modern life.
Hand-washing dishes gets read as thrift or nostalgia. Look closer and it's a small, contained task that gives back something the dishwasher removes: attention without decisions, and an ending you can see.
