Watch this interesting insight on information: we treat it as food. In this 8mn TED video, JP Rangaswami asks: “what would change in your life if you considered that the information you take in everyday is food”? He finds many similarities and points of comparison. We were hunter gatherers of information (free to roam) and… Continue reading Information as Food
Category: Cognition
The Twisted Business of Measuring Performance
In this Washington Post article, Dan Ariely, Professor of Behavioural Economics at Duke University and a prolific writer on the irrational dimension of human behaviour, shows how performance measurement tools influence the performance itself. Taking inspiration from Corporate America (and some real life examples of how motivation policies turn out to demotivate staff), he looks… Continue reading The Twisted Business of Measuring Performance
Irrationally Yours
To follow up on a previous post “Emotions Drive Thinking” the idea that we are, at our core, rational beings is being eroded by recent research. Our economy and financial systems are based on the idea that humans are rational beings and that their actions are determined by rational deductions. Behavioural Economics looks into the… Continue reading Irrationally Yours