Human Behavior
The behavioral layer that connects every system we cover: psychology, incentives, decision making, cognitive biases, leadership, demographics, culture, consumer behavior, social contagion, network effects, persuasion, and human performance.
Attention Residue
Sophie Leroy found that part of your attention stays on the last task after you switch away from it. The uncomfortable part: finishing that task is not enough to release it.
Trained Interruptibility
Researchers shadowed information workers for 889 hours and sorted 5,089 task switches by cause. Eighteen percent had no external prompt at all — and being interrupted in one hour predicted interrupting yourself in the next.
Mimetic Desire
René Girard's claim that desire has three points rather than two: you, the object, and a model who wanted it first. Why the nearest rival is the most dangerous, and why rivalry makes two men identical.
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