How Your Chair is Literally Killing You
Granted, when you think about all the things that are slowly killing you, things like second-hand smoke, the chemicals in your food, and...
Performance Hacking Sleep
What is the evolutionary purpose of sleep? Doesn’t it seem like a huge concession to spend a third of your life inactive? Or is it an...
Forgetting to Learn, or, The Paradox of Memory
Memory is a fickle thing. There are times when the important information you need, like an email password, remains just out of your grasp....
The Calorie Myth, or, Jeans Theory
There are a couple of things you can go to the bank on: Any major city with a sports team is going to hit up its populace to fund a new...
Zen and the Art of Riffing
Q: What did the Zen master say to the hotdog vendor? A: “Make me one with everything...” Central to the premise of this old joke is the...
The Morgan Freeman Fallacy: How Much of Your Brain Are You Using?
“It is estimated that most human beings only use ten percent of their brain,” Morgan Freeman intones in the movie Lucy. Central to the...
The Smoking Monkey Memo
The inventor of the airplane seatbelt was a man ahead of his time. It's an over-used expression but in this case, it applies: engineer...
Grab a Free Hour: a How-To
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had an extra hour in each day? Imagine how much more you could get done with another 60 minutes of free time....
Sing a Song of Willpower
“Oh, the thigh bone’s connected to the leg bone and the leg bone’s connected to the…” You probably learned some version of this classic...
Why Your Mindset Might be Throwing You Curveballs
Are you wired for success? And by “success”, I’m not necessarily talking about monetary reward. In her paper “The Mindset of a Champion”,...
